Characterization of immune cell populations in the tumor microenvironment of colorectal cancer using high definition spatial profiling

MF Oliveira, JP Romero, M Chung, S Williams… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the second-deadliest cancer in the world, yet a deeper
understanding of spatial patterns of gene expression in the tumor microenvironment (TME) …

Deep immunophenotyping reveals clinically distinct cellular states and ecosystems in large-scale colorectal cancer

S Li, T Pan, G Xu, Y Gao, Y Zhang, Q Xu, J Pan… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
Determining the diverse cell types in the tumor microenvironment (TME) and their
organization into cellular communities, is critical for understanding the biological …

Single-cell and spatial analysis reveal interaction of FAP+ fibroblasts and SPP1+ macrophages in colorectal cancer

J Qi, H Sun, Y Zhang, Z Wang, Z Xun, Z Li… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is among the most common malignancies with limited treatments
other than surgery. The tumor microenvironment (TME) profiling enables the discovery of …

Ultra-resolution Deconvolution of Spatial Transcriptomics Unveils Spatiotemporal Cellular Dynamics in Complex Microenvironments

Y Xu, Z Huang, Y Zhang, Z Wang, P Guo, F Zhang… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
The current challenge in analyzing sequencing-based spatial transcriptomics (ST) is to
precisely resolve the spatial distribution of cell subpopulations with low abundance and …

920 A single-cell spatially resolved MERFISH map of the colorectal tumor immune microenvironment

C Price, J Chen, K Pelka, S Chao, J He, G Boland… - 2021 - jitc.bmj.com
Background Understanding the tumor microenvironment (TIME) requires more than just a
catalog of cell types and gene programs. It is critical to see the spatial organization of the …

Multiregion single‐cell sequencing reveals the transcriptional landscape of the immune microenvironment of colorectal cancer

W Wang, Y Zhong, Z Zhuang, J Xie, Y Lu… - Clinical and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The tumor microenvironment is a complex ecosystem formed by distinct and interacting cell
populations, and its composition is related to cancer prognosis and response to clinical …

Coordinated cellular neighborhoods orchestrate antitumoral immunity at the colorectal cancer invasive front

CM Schürch, SS Bhate, GL Barlow, DJ Phillips, L Noti… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
Antitumoral immunity requires organized, spatially nuanced interactions between
components of the immune tumor microenvironment (iTME). Understanding this coordinated …

Single‐cell analyses reveal suppressive tumor microenvironment of human colorectal cancer

Y Mei, W Xiao, H Hu, G Lu, L Chen… - Clinical and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Profiling heterologous cell types within tumors is essential to decipher tumor
microenvironment that shapes tumor progress and determines the outcome of therapeutic …

Spatial and single-cell transcriptomics decipher the cellular environment containing HLA-G+ cancer cells and SPP1+ macrophages in colorectal cancer

Y Ozato, Y Kojima, Y Kobayashi, Y Hisamatsu… - Cell reports, 2023 - cell.com
The cellular interactions in the tumor microenvironment of colorectal cancer (CRC) are
poorly understood, hindering patient treatment. In the current study, we investigate whether …

Integrative single cell and spatial transcriptomics of colorectal cancer reveals multicellular functional units that support tumor progression

I Avraham-Davidi, S Mages, J Klughammer, N Moriel… - BioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
While advances in single cell genomics have helped to chart the cellular components of
tumor ecosystems, it has been more challenging to characterize their specific spatial …