Gillian Gray
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The Queen's Medical Research Institute
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47 Little France Crescent - City
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Research summary
Survival following acute myocardial infarction (MI), or heart attack, has increased thanks to efficient intervention to restore blood supply to the myocardium, or heart muscle. However, the myocardium still incurs damage, and as the adult heart does cannot efficiently regenerate new tissue, a fibrous scar is formed that does not contribute to contraction. In the longer term the remaining healthy heart undergoes remodelling while trying to maintain cardiac output, leading to an increased chance of developing of debilitating chronic heart failure. My research is focused primarily on understanding how to limit the loss of contractile tissue that occurs immediately after MI, but in particular the processes involved in infarct healing (inflammation, fibroblast activation & angiogenesis) and how these might be targeted therapeutically to prevent infarct expansion during repair. We also work on development of new imaging techniques to identify vulnerable peri-infarct myocardium and on the mechanisms that support neonatal heart regeneration after injury. see Research in Nutshell video: http://www.nutshell-videos.ed.ac.uk/gillian-gray-myocardial-injury-repai...
Research activities
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The Influence of the LINC00961/SPAAR Locus Loss on Murine Development, Myocardial Dynamics, and Cardiac Response to Myocardial Infarction
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International Journal of Molecular Sciences
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms22020969
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Transfer of hepatocellular microRNA regulates cytochrome P450 2E1 in renal tubular cells
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EBioMedicine, vol. 62
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ebiom.2020.103092
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Quantification of macrophage-driven inflammation during myocardial infarction with 18F-LW223, a novel TSPO radiotracer with binding independent of the rs6971 human polymorphism
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Journal of Nuclear Medicine
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2967/jnumed.120.243600
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Progression and regression of left ventricular hypertrophy and myocardial fibrosis in a mouse model of hypertension and concomitant cardiomyopathy
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Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12968-020-00655-7
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Mir-96 and miR-183 differentially regulate neonatal and adult post-infarct neovascularisation
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JCI Insight, vol. 5
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1172/jci.insight.134888
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Eosinophil deficiency promotes aberrant repair and adverse remodelling following acute myocardial infarction
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JACC: Basic to Translational Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacbts.2020.05.005
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Assessment of myocardial fibrosis activity using 18F-Fluoroproline Positron Emission Tomography (PET) in rat models of cardiovascular disease
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Heart
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/heartjnl-2020-SCF.26
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Targeting the main anatomopathological features in animal models of myocardial infarction
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Journal of Comparative Pathology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcpa.2020.01.003
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Manganese-enhanced T1 mapping to quantify myocardial viability: validation with 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography
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Scientific Reports, vol. 10
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-58716-x
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Electrocardiogram-gated Kilohertz Visualisation (EKV) Ultrasound Allows Assessment of Neonatal Cardiac Structural and Functional Maturation and Longitudinal Evaluation of Regeneration After Injury
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Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology (UMB)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2019.09.012
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3D angle-independent Doppler and speckle tracking for the myocardium and blood flow
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Echo research and practice
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1530/ERP-19-0040
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Single cell transcriptome analyses reveal novel targets modulating cardiac neovascularisation by resident endothelial cells following myocardial infarction
(14 pages)
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European Heart Journal, vol. 40, pp. 2507–2520
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/ehz305
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Kinetic modelling and quantification bias in small animal PET studies with [18F]AB5186, a novel 18 kDa translocator protein radiotracer
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PLoS ONE, vol. 14, pp. e0217515
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0217515
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Enhanced monocyte recruitment and delayed alternative macrophage polarization accompanies impaired repair following myocardial infarction in C57BL/6 compared to BALB/c mice
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Clinical & Experimental Immunology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/cei.13330
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Antenatal dexamethasone treatment transiently alters diastolic function in the mouse fetal heart
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Journal of Endocrinology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1530/JOE-18-0666
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Manganese-enhanced T1 mapping in the myocardium of normal and infarcted hearts.
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Contrast Media and Molecular Imaging
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1155/2018/9641527
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Statistical considerations in reporting cardiovascular research
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American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology, vol. 315, pp. H303-H313
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1152/ajpheart.00309.2018
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MicroRNA-148b Targets the TGF-β Pathway to Regulate Angiogenesis and Endothelial-to-Mesenchymal Transition during Skin Wound Healing
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Molecular Therapy, vol. 26, pp. 1996-2007
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ymthe.2018.05.002
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Resident cells of the myocardium:more than spectators in cardiac injury, repair and regeneration
(6 pages)
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Current opinion in physiology, vol. 1, pp. 46-51
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cophys.2017.08.001
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αv integrins on mesenchymal cells regulate skeletal and cardiac muscle fibrosis
(13 pages)
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Nature Communications, vol. 8
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01097-z
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published)