[HTML][HTML] What is a cell type and how to define it?

H Zeng - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Cell types are the basic functional units of an organism. Cell types exhibit diverse
phenotypic properties at multiple levels, making them challenging to define, categorize, and …

Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics: deciphering brain complexity in health and disease

M Piwecka, N Rajewsky, A Rybak-Wolf - Nature Reviews Neurology, 2023 - nature.com
In the past decade, single-cell technologies have proliferated and improved from their
technically challenging beginnings to become common laboratory methods capable of …

A multimodal cell census and atlas of the mammalian primary motor cortex

Principal manuscript editors, Analysis coordination… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Here we report the generation of a multimodal cell census and atlas of the mammalian
primary motor cortex as the initial product of the BRAIN Initiative Cell Census Network …

[HTML][HTML] Spatially resolved cell atlas of the mouse primary motor cortex by MERFISH

M Zhang, SW Eichhorn, B Zingg, Z Yao, K Cotter… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
A mammalian brain is composed of numerous cell types organized in an intricate manner to
form functional neural circuits. Single-cell RNA sequencing allows systematic identification …

Inflammation from peripheral organs to the brain: how does systemic inflammation cause neuroinflammation?

Y Sun, Y Koyama, S Shimada - Frontiers in aging neuroscience, 2022 - frontiersin.org
As inflammation in the brain contributes to several neurological and psychiatric diseases,
the cause of neuroinflammation is being widely studied. The causes of neuroinflammation …

[HTML][HTML] Cellular anatomy of the mouse primary motor cortex

R Muñoz-Castañeda, B Zingg, KS Matho, X Chen… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
An essential step toward understanding brain function is to establish a structural framework
with cellular resolution on which multi-scale datasets spanning molecules, cells, circuits and …

[HTML][HTML] Phenotypic variation of transcriptomic cell types in mouse motor cortex

F Scala, D Kobak, M Bernabucci, Y Bernaerts… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Cortical neurons exhibit extreme diversity in gene expression as well as in morphological
and electrophysiological properties 1, 2. Most existing neural taxonomies are based on …

Genetic dissection of the glutamatergic neuron system in cerebral cortex

KS Matho, D Huilgol, W Galbavy, M He, G Kim, X An… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Diverse types of glutamatergic pyramidal neurons mediate the myriad processing streams
and output channels of the cerebral cortex,, yet all derive from neural progenitors of the …

Deep self-learning enables fast, high-fidelity isotropic resolution restoration for volumetric fluorescence microscopy

K Ning, B Lu, X Wang, X Zhang, S Nie, T Jiang… - Light: Science & …, 2023 - nature.com
One intrinsic yet critical issue that troubles the field of fluorescence microscopy ever since its
introduction is the unmatched resolution in the lateral and axial directions (ie, resolution …

Comparative transcriptomics reveals human-specific cortical features

NL Jorstad, JHT Song, D Exposito-Alonso, H Suresh… - Science, 2023 - science.org
The cognitive abilities of humans are distinctive among primates, but their molecular and
cellular substrates are poorly understood. We used comparative single-nucleus …