Bioinformatics Analysis Identifies a Potential Key Gene in the Pathogenesis of Pulmonary Hypertension-HSPH1.

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HSPH1, a member of the heat shock protein family, has been shown to inhibit protein aggregation but its role in PAH remains unclear. The purpose of this study was to explore the expression pattern and potential mechanism of HSPH1 in PAH, and to provide new diagnostic markers for PAH. In the study differentially expressed genes from two GEO microarray datasets (GSE53408, GSE113439) were analyzed to identify potential biomarkers for PAH. The expression of HSPH1 in normal lung tissue and pulmonary hypertension tissue was verified by bioinformatics and various experiments. This study also validated the potential mechanism of action of HSPH1 in PAH through transfection techniques. In addition, clinical correlation analysis was used to verify whether HSPH1 was correlated with clinical indicators (age, smoking history, hypertension, SII, NLR, PLR). The results showed that the protein level of HSPH1 was significantly increased in the pulmonary artery tissue of rats with pulmonary hypertension. In the plasma of patients with clinical PAH, the expression of HSPH1 mRNA was also observed to be significantly increased, and its expression was also associated with inflammatory markers such as NLR, PLR and SII. In addition, wet experiments found that HSPH1 could promote the proliferation of pulmonary artery smooth muscle cells, promote epithelial-mesenchymal transformation and inhibit apoptosis. These findings suggest that HSPH1 plays a crucial role in PAH progression and may serve as a potential diagnostic biomarker for the disease.", "claims": [{"id": "claim-method", "statement": "The data set was independently analyzed, and background correction, percentiles normalization, and log2 transformation were performed using the GEO2R default process (based on the limma package). 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