The epicardium as a hub for heart regeneration

J Cao, KD Poss - Nature Reviews Cardiology, 2018 - nature.com
After decades of directed research, no effective regenerative therapy is currently available to
repair the injured human heart. The epicardium, a layer of mesothelial tissue that envelops …

Hematopoietic hierarchy–an updated roadmap

Y Zhang, S Gao, J Xia, F Liu - Trends in cell biology, 2018 - cell.com
The classical roadmap of hematopoietic hierarchy has been proposed for nearly 20 years
and has become a dogma of stem cell research for most types of adult stem cells, including …

[HTML][HTML] Distinct developmental pathways from blood monocytes generate human lung macrophage diversity

E Evren, E Ringqvist, KP Tripathi, N Sleiers, IC Rives… - Immunity, 2021 - cell.com
The study of human macrophages and their ontogeny is an important unresolved issue.
Here, we use a humanized mouse model expressing human cytokines to dissect the …

Glioma-derived IL-33 orchestrates an inflammatory brain tumor microenvironment that accelerates glioma progression

A De Boeck, BY Ahn, C D'Mello, X Lun… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Despite a deeper molecular understanding, human glioblastoma remains one of the most
treatment refractory and fatal cancers. It is known that the presence of macrophages and …

[HTML][HTML] A human breast atlas integrating single-cell proteomics and transcriptomics

GK Gray, CMC Li, JM Rosenbluth, LM Selfors… - Developmental cell, 2022 - cell.com
The breast is a dynamic organ whose response to physiological and pathophysiological
conditions alters its disease susceptibility, yet the specific effects of these clinical variables …

[HTML][HTML] Multi-omics analysis of human mesenchymal stem cells shows cell aging that alters immunomodulatory activity through the downregulation of PD-L1

Y Gao, Y Chi, Y Chen, W Wang, H Li, W Zheng… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) possess potent immunomodulatory activity and have been
extensively investigated for their therapeutic potential in treating inflammatory disorders …

PhyloVelo enhances transcriptomic velocity field mapping using monotonically expressed genes

K Wang, L Hou, X Wang, X Zhai, Z Lu, Z Zi… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) is a powerful approach for studying cellular
differentiation, but accurately tracking cell fate transitions can be challenging, especially in …

Estimation of tumor cell total mRNA expression in 15 cancer types predicts disease progression

S Cao, JR Wang, S Ji, P Yang, Y Dai, S Guo… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Single-cell RNA sequencing studies have suggested that total mRNA content correlates with
tumor phenotypes. Technical and analytical challenges, however, have so far impeded at …

Systematic identification of cell-fate regulatory programs using a single-cell atlas of mouse development

L Fei, H Chen, L Ma, WE, R Wang, X Fang, Z Zhou… - Nature Genetics, 2022 - nature.com
Waddington's epigenetic landscape is a metaphor frequently used to illustrate cell
differentiation. Recent advances in single-cell genomics are altering our understanding of …

TNF induces pathogenic programmed macrophage necrosis in tuberculosis through a mitochondrial-lysosomal-endoplasmic reticulum circuit

FJ Roca, LJ Whitworth, S Redmond, AA Jones… - Cell, 2019 - cell.com
Necrosis of infected macrophages constitutes a critical pathogenetic event in tuberculosis by
releasing mycobacteria into the growth-permissive extracellular environment. In zebrafish …