Macrophage diversity in cancer revisited in the era of single-cell omics

RY Ma, A Black, BZ Qian - Trends in immunology, 2022 - cell.com
Tumor-associated macrophages (TAMs) have multiple potent functions in cancer and, thus,
represent important therapeutic targets. These diverse functions highlight the heterogenous …

Immune mechanisms linking metabolic injury to inflammation and fibrosis in fatty liver disease–novel insights into cellular communication circuits

M Peiseler, R Schwabe, J Hampe, P Kubes… - Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is the most prevalent chronic liver disease and is
emerging as the leading cause of cirrhosis, liver transplantation and hepatocellular …

Transfer learning enables predictions in network biology

CV Theodoris, L Xiao, A Chopra, MD Chaffin… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Mapping gene networks requires large amounts of transcriptomic data to learn the
connections between genes, which impedes discoveries in settings with limited data …

Cancer cell states recur across tumor types and form specific interactions with the tumor microenvironment

D Barkley, R Moncada, M Pour, DA Liberman, I Dryg… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Transcriptional heterogeneity among malignant cells of a tumor has been studied in
individual cancer types and shown to be organized into cancer cell states; however, it …

Liver macrophages in health and disease

M Guilliams, CL Scott - Immunity, 2022 - cell.com
Single-cell and spatial transcriptomic technologies have revealed an underappreciated
heterogeneity of liver macrophages. This has led us to rethink the involvement of …

Immunomodulation by endothelial cells—partnering up with the immune system?

J Amersfoort, G Eelen, P Carmeliet - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2022 - nature.com
Blood vessel endothelial cells (ECs) have long been known to modulate inflammation by
regulating immune cell trafficking, activation status and function. However, whether the …

Three tissue resident macrophage subsets coexist across organs with conserved origins and life cycles

SA Dick, A Wong, H Hamidzada, S Nejat… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Resident macrophages orchestrate homeostatic, inflammatory, and reparative activities. It is
appreciated that different tissues instruct specialized macrophage functions. However …

A single–cell type transcriptomics map of human tissues

M Karlsson, C Zhang, L Méar, W Zhong, A Digre… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
Advances in molecular profiling have opened up the possibility to map the expression of
genes in cells, tissues, and organs in the human body. Here, we combined single-cell …

Immune cell-mediated features of non-alcoholic steatohepatitis

T Huby, EL Gautier - Nature reviews immunology, 2022 - nature.com
Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) includes a range of hepatic manifestations,
starting with liver steatosis and potentially evolving towards non-alcoholic steatohepatitis …

Spatiotemporal immune landscape of colorectal cancer liver metastasis at single-cell level

Y Wu, S Yang, J Ma, Z Chen, G Song, D Rao, Y Cheng… - Cancer discovery, 2022 - AACR
Liver metastasis, the leading cause of colorectal cancer mortality, exhibits a highly
heterogeneous and suppressive immune microenvironment. Here, we sequenced 97 …