[PDF][PDF] 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 …

Tissue clearing and its applications in neuroscience

HR Ueda, A Ertürk, K Chung, V Gradinaru… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
State-of-the-art tissue-clearing methods provide subcellular-level optical access to intact
tissues from individual organs and even to some entire mammals. When combined with light …

Genome-wide meta-analysis of insomnia prioritizes genes associated with metabolic and psychiatric pathways

K Watanabe, PR Jansen, JE Savage, P Nandakumar… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Insomnia is a heritable, highly prevalent sleep disorder for which no sufficient treatment
currently exists. Previous genome-wide association studies with up to 1.3 million subjects …

Non-neuronal expression of SARS-CoV-2 entry genes in the olfactory system suggests mechanisms underlying COVID-19-associated anosmia

DH Brann, T Tsukahara, C Weinreb, M Lipovsek… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
Altered olfactory function is a common symptom of COVID-19, but its etiology is unknown. A
key question is whether SARS-CoV-2 (CoV-2)–the causal agent in COVID-19–affects …

[HTML][HTML] HypoMap—a unified single-cell gene expression atlas of the murine hypothalamus

L Steuernagel, BYH Lam, P Klemm, GKC Dowsett… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The hypothalamus plays a key role in coordinating fundamental body functions. Despite
recent progress in single-cell technologies, a unified catalog and molecular characterization …

[HTML][HTML] Molecularly defined and spatially resolved cell atlas of the whole mouse brain

M Zhang, X Pan, W Jung, AR Halpern, SW Eichhorn… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
In mammalian brains, millions to billions of cells form complex interaction networks to enable
a wide range of functions. The enormous diversity and intricate organization of cells have …

Single-cell transcriptomic profiling of the aging mouse brain

M Ximerakis, SL Lipnick, BT Innes, SK Simmons… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
The mammalian brain is complex, with multiple cell types performing a variety of diverse
functions, but exactly how each cell type is affected in aging remains largely unknown. Here …

Molecular, spatial, and functional single-cell profiling of the hypothalamic preoptic region

JR Moffitt, D Bambah-Mukku, SW Eichhorn, E Vaughn… - Science, 2018 - science.org
INTRODUCTION A mechanistic understanding of brain function requires the identification of
distinct cell types in the brain at a molecular, spatial, and functional level. The preoptic …

[PDF][PDF] Molecular architecture of the mouse nervous system

A Zeisel, H Hochgerner, P Lönnerberg, A Johnsson… - Cell, 2018 - cell.com
The mammalian nervous system executes complex behaviors controlled by specialized,
precisely positioned, and interacting cell types. Here, we used RNA sequencing of half a …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …