Tissue macrophages: heterogeneity and functions

S Gordon, A Plüddemann - BMC biology, 2017 - Springer
Macrophages are present in all vertebrate tissues, from mid-gestation throughout life,
constituting a widely dispersed organ system. They promote homeostasis by responding to …

The versatile gasdermin family: their function and roles in diseases

J Zou, Y Zheng, Y Huang, D Tang, R Kang… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The gasdermin (GSDM) family, a novel group of structure-related proteins, consists of
GSDMA, GSDMB, GSDMC, GSDMD, GSDME/DNFA5, and PVJK/GSDMF. GSDMs possess …

Embryo-scale, single-cell spatial transcriptomics

SR Srivatsan, MC Regier, E Barkan, JM Franks… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Spatial patterns of gene expression manifest at scales ranging from local (eg, cell-cell
interactions) to global (eg, body axis patterning). However, current spatial transcriptomics …

Integration of spatial and single-cell transcriptomic data elucidates mouse organogenesis

T Lohoff, S Ghazanfar, A Missarova, N Koulena… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Molecular profiling of single cells has advanced our knowledge of the molecular basis of
development. However, current approaches mostly rely on dissociating cells from tissues …

Mapping the mouse cell atlas by microwell-seq

X Han, R Wang, Y Zhou, L Fei, H Sun, S Lai… - Cell, 2018 - cell.com
Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) technologies are poised to reshape the current
cell-type classification system. However, a transcriptome-based single-cell atlas has not …

Spatiotemporal structure of cell fate decisions in murine neural crest

R Soldatov, M Kaucka, ME Kastriti, J Petersen… - Science, 2019 - science.org
Neural crest cells are embryonic progenitors that generate numerous cell types in
vertebrates. With single-cell analysis, we show that mouse trunk neural crest cells become …

Computational and analytical challenges in single-cell transcriptomics

O Stegle, SA Teichmann, JC Marioni - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2015 - nature.com
The development of high-throughput RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) at the single-cell level has
already led to profound new discoveries in biology, ranging from the identification of novel …

The BioMart community portal: an innovative alternative to large, centralized data repositories

D Smedley, S Haider, S Durinck, L Pandini… - Nucleic acids …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The BioMart Community Portal (www. biomart. org) is a community-driven effort to
provide a unified interface to biomedical databases that are distributed worldwide. The …

Single-cell resolution of temporal gene expression during heart development

DM DeLaughter, AG Bick, H Wakimoto, D McKean… - Developmental cell, 2016 - cell.com
Activation of complex molecular programs in specific cell lineages governs mammalian
heart development, from a primordial linear tube to a four-chamber organ. To characterize …

An anatomically comprehensive atlas of the adult human brain transcriptome

MJ Hawrylycz, ES Lein, AL Guillozet-Bongaarts… - Nature, 2012 - nature.com
Neuroanatomically precise, genome-wide maps of transcript distributions are critical
resources to complement genomic sequence data and to correlate functional and genetic …