An RNA-sequencing transcriptome and splicing database of glia, neurons, and vascular cells of the cerebral cortex

Y Zhang, K Chen, SA Sloan, ML Bennett… - Journal of …, 2014 - Soc Neuroscience
The major cell classes of the brain differ in their developmental processes, metabolism,
signaling, and function. To better understand the functions and interactions of the cell types …

A transcriptome database for astrocytes, neurons, and oligodendrocytes: a new resource for understanding brain development and function

JD Cahoy, B Emery, A Kaushal, LC Foo… - Journal of …, 2008 - Soc Neuroscience
Understanding the cell–cell interactions that control CNS development and function has
long been limited by the lack of methods to cleanly separate neural cell types. Here we …

Molecular diversity and specializations among the cells of the adult mouse brain

A Saunders, EZ Macosko, A Wysoker, M Goldman… - Cell, 2018 - cell.com
The mammalian brain is composed of diverse, specialized cell populations. To
systematically ascertain and learn from these cellular specializations, we used Drop-seq to …

Brain transcriptome databases: a user's guide

JM Keil, A Qalieh, KY Kwan - Journal of Neuroscience, 2018 - Soc Neuroscience
Transcriptional programs instruct the generation and maintenance of diverse subtypes of
neural cells, establishment of distinct brain regions, formation and function of neural circuits …

Molecular diversity of astrocytes with implications for neurological disorders

RM Bachoo, RS Kim, KL Ligon… - Proceedings of the …, 2004 - National Acad Sciences
The astrocyte represents the most abundant yet least understood cell type of the CNS. Here,
we use a stringent experimental strategy to molecularly define the astrocyte lineage by …

Functional organization of the transcriptome in human brain

MC Oldham, G Konopka, K Iwamoto, P Langfelder… - Nature …, 2008 - nature.com
The enormous complexity of the human brain ultimately derives from a finite set of molecular
instructions encoded in the human genome. These instructions can be directly studied by …

Adult mouse cortical cell taxonomy revealed by single cell transcriptomics

B Tasic, V Menon, TN Nguyen, TK Kim, T Jarsky… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Nervous systems are composed of various cell types, but the extent of cell type diversity is
poorly understood. We constructed a cellular taxonomy of one cortical region, primary visual …

Complexity and graded regulation of neuronal cell-type–specific alternative splicing revealed by single-cell RNA sequencing

H Feng, DF Moakley, S Chen… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
The enormous cellular diversity in the mammalian brain, which is highly prototypical and
organized in a hierarchical manner, is dictated by cell-type–specific gene-regulatory …

Single-cell sequencing of brain cell transcriptomes and epigenomes

EJ Armand, J Li, F Xie, C Luo, EA Mukamel - Neuron, 2021 - cell.com
Single-cell sequencing technologies, including transcriptomic and epigenomic assays, are
transforming our understanding of the cellular building blocks of neural circuits. By directly …

mRNA expression, splicing and editing in the embryonic and adult mouse cerebral cortex

AA Dillman, DN Hauser, JR Gibbs, MA Nalls… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
The complexity of the adult brain is a result of both developmental processes and
experience-dependent circuit formation. One way to look at the differences between …