Single‐cell RNA sequencing technologies and applications: A brief overview

D Jovic, X Liang, H Zeng, L Lin, F Xu… - Clinical and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Single‐cell RNA sequencing (scRNA‐seq) technology has become the state‐of‐the‐art
approach for unravelling the heterogeneity and complexity of RNA transcripts within …

How many cell types are in the kidney and what do they do?

MS Balzer, T Rohacs, K Susztak - Annual review of physiology, 2022 - annualreviews.org
The kidney maintains electrolyte, water, and acid-base balance, eliminates foreign and
waste compounds, regulates blood pressure, and secretes hormones. There are at least 16 …

Single-nucleus cross-tissue molecular reference maps toward understanding disease gene function

G Eraslan, E Drokhlyansky, S Anand, E Fiskin… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Understanding gene function and regulation in homeostasis and disease requires
knowledge of the cellular and tissue contexts in which genes are expressed. Here, we …

An atlas of healthy and injured cell states and niches in the human kidney

BB Lake, R Menon, S Winfree, Q Hu, R Melo Ferreira… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Understanding kidney disease relies on defining the complexity of cell types and states, their
associated molecular profiles and interactions within tissue neighbourhoods. Here we …

Decoding myofibroblast origins in human kidney fibrosis

C Kuppe, MM Ibrahim, J Kranz, X Zhang, S Ziegler… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Kidney fibrosis is the hallmark of chronic kidney disease progression; however, at present
no antifibrotic therapies exist,–. The origin, functional heterogeneity and regulation of scar …

Single-cell analyses of renal cell cancers reveal insights into tumor microenvironment, cell of origin, and therapy response

Y Zhang, SP Narayanan, R Mannan… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Diverse subtypes of renal cell carcinomas (RCCs) display a wide spectrum of
histomorphologies, proteogenomic alterations, immune cell infiltration patterns, and clinical …

Cell transcriptomic atlas of the non-human primate Macaca fascicularis

L Han, X Wei, C Liu, G Volpe, Z Zhuang, X Zou, Z Wang… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Studying tissue composition and function in non-human primates (NHPs) is crucial to
understand the nature of our own species. Here we present a large-scale cell transcriptomic …

Identification, discrimination and heterogeneity of fibroblasts

U Lendahl, L Muhl, C Betsholtz - Nature communications, 2022 - nature.com
Fibroblasts, the principal cell type of connective tissue, secrete extracellular matrix
components during tissue development, homeostasis, repair and disease. Despite this …

Spatial charting of single-cell transcriptomes in tissues

R Wei, S He, S Bai, E Sei, M Hu, A Thompson… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Single-cell RNA sequencing methods can profile the transcriptomes of single cells but
cannot preserve spatial information. Conversely, spatial transcriptomics assays can profile …

Single cell transcriptional and chromatin accessibility profiling redefine cellular heterogeneity in the adult human kidney

Y Muto, PC Wilson, N Ledru, H Wu, H Dimke… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The integration of single cell transcriptome and chromatin accessibility datasets enables a
deeper understanding of cell heterogeneity. We performed single nucleus ATAC (snATAC …