Comparison of gene expression profiles in hearts exposed to pressure overload (PO) with or without sildenafil treatment in PERK wild type (flx) or PERK cardiac-specific knockout 8cko) mice.

Recently, it is reported that sildenafil suppresses maturation of PO-induced miRNAs. However, the mechanism of how sildenafil coupled NO-cGMP-PKG signaling affects this maturation was not unraveled. Here, we show that PERK-mediated suppression of miRNAs by sildenafil is vital to keep mitochondrial homeostasis, using cardiac-specific PERK knockout (cko) mice. Overall design: Total 12 samples were derived from hearts exposed to PO with or without sildenafil treatment in PERK wild type (flx) or PERK cko mice.