Single-cell atlases: shared and tissue-specific cell types across human organs

R Elmentaite, C Domínguez Conde, L Yang… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
The development of single-cell and spatial transcriptomics methods was instrumental in the
conception of the Human Cell Atlas initiative, which aims to generate an integrated map of …

[HTML][HTML] The molecular athlete: exercise physiology from mechanisms to medals

R Furrer, JA Hawley, C Handschin - Physiological Reviews, 2023 - journals.physiology.org
Human skeletal muscle demonstrates remarkable plasticity, adapting to numerous external
stimuli including the habitual level of contractile loading. Accordingly, muscle function and …

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 …

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 …

Spatial mapping of the total transcriptome by in situ polyadenylation

DW McKellar, M Mantri, MM Hinchman… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Spatial transcriptomics reveals the spatial context of gene expression, but current methods
are limited to assaying polyadenylated (A-tailed) RNA transcripts. Here we demonstrate that …

Large-scale integration of single-cell transcriptomic data captures transitional progenitor states in mouse skeletal muscle regeneration

DW McKellar, LD Walter, LT Song, M Mantri… - Communications …, 2021 - nature.com
Skeletal muscle repair is driven by the coordinated self-renewal and fusion of myogenic
stem and progenitor cells. Single-cell gene expression analyses of myogenesis have been …

Aging, obesity, sarcopenia and the effect of diet and exercise intervention

G Colleluori, DT Villareal - Experimental gerontology, 2021 - Elsevier
The number of adults 65 years and older is increasing worldwide and will represent the 20%
of the population by 2030. Half of them will suffer from obesity. The decline in muscle mass …

Opposing gene regulatory programs governing myofiber development and maturation revealed at single nucleus resolution

M Dos Santos, AM Shah, Y Zhang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Skeletal muscle fibers express distinct gene programs during development and maturation,
but the underlying gene regulatory networks that confer stage-specific myofiber properties …

Single-nucleus transcriptomics reveals functional compartmentalization in syncytial skeletal muscle cells

M Kim, V Franke, B Brandt, ED Lowenstein… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Syncytial skeletal muscle cells contain hundreds of nuclei in a shared cytoplasm. We
investigated nuclear heterogeneity and transcriptional dynamics in the uninjured and …

Traumatic muscle injury

P Edouard, G Reurink, AL Mackey, RL Lieber… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Traumatic muscle injury represents a collection of skeletal muscle pathologies caused by
trauma to the muscle tissue and is defined as damage to the muscle tissue that can result in …