The invention belongs to the technical field of biological medicines, and particularly relates to an application of a Fam198B
gene or a
protein coded by the Fam198B
gene in preparation of a
medicine for preventing, relieving or / and treating
myocardial infarction. It is found for the first time that the expression level of Fam198B in
myocardial tissue of a
myocardial infarction mouse induced by coronary
artery ligation is remarkably increased; in addition, after
myocardial infarction of the mouse with the Fam198B
gene specifically knocked out of the myocardial cells is carried out for one day, the
myocardial cell apoptosis is obviously increased, and the
systolic function of the heart becomes poor; after 10 days of myocardial
infarction of the mouse with the Fam198B gene specifically knocked out of the myocardial fibroblasts, the
systolic function of the heart becomes poor,
collagen secretion of the fibroblasts is increased, and the death rate of the mouse is remarkably increased. The results show that Fam198B participates in dual regulation and control of
myocardial cell survival and
fibroblast activation, and plays a role in
heart protection in the
pathological process of myocardial
infarction. Therefore, the Fam198B gene, the Fam198B
protein and the activator expressed by the Fam198B gene can be used for preparing the
medicine for preventing, relieving or / and treating the myocardial
infarction, and the Fam198B gene or the Fam198B
protein can also be used as a
medicine target for screening the medicine for preventing, relieving or / and treating the myocardial infarction.