Hepatic stellate cells in physiology and pathology

DR Kamm, KS McCommis - The Journal of physiology, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Hepatic stellate cells (HSCs) comprise a minor cell population in the liver but serve
numerous critical functions in the normal liver and in response to injury. HSCs are primarily …

Confronting false discoveries in single-cell differential expression

JW Squair, M Gautier, C Kathe, MA Anderson… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Differential expression analysis in single-cell transcriptomics enables the dissection of cell-
type-specific responses to perturbations such as disease, trauma, or experimental …

[HTML][HTML] In vitro models for the study of liver biology and diseases: advances and limitations

S Kaur, S Kidambi, M Ortega-Ribera, N Nieto… - Cellular and molecular …, 2023 - Elsevier
In vitro models of liver (patho) physiology, new technologies, and experimental approaches
are progressing rapidly. Based on cell lines, induced pluripotent stem cells or primary cells …

Sex-biased gene expression across mammalian organ development and evolution

L Rodríguez-Montes, S Ovchinnikova, X Yuan, T Studer… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Sexually dimorphic traits are common among mammals and are specified during
development through the deployment of sex-specific genetic programs. Because little is …

Super enhancer regulation of cytokine-induced chemokine production in alcoholic hepatitis

M Liu, S Cao, L He, J Gao, JP Arab, H Cui… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Alcoholic hepatitis (AH) is associated with liver neutrophil infiltration through activated
cytokine pathways leading to elevated chemokine expression. Super-enhancers are …

Single-nucleus RNA-seq2 reveals functional crosstalk between liver zonation and ploidy

ML Richter, IK Deligiannis, K Yin, A Danese… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Single-cell RNA-seq reveals the role of pathogenic cell populations in development and
progression of chronic diseases. In order to expand our knowledge on cellular …

Single-cell metabolic profiling reveals subgroups of primary human hepatocytes with heterogeneous responses to drug challenge

E Sanchez-Quant, ML Richter, M Colomé-Tatché… - Genome Biology, 2023 - Springer
Background Xenobiotics are primarily metabolized by hepatocytes in the liver, and primary
human hepatocytes are the gold standard model for the assessment of drug efficacy, safety …

Epigenetic regulation of hepatic lipid metabolism by DNA methylation

S Wang, L Zha, X Cui, YT Yeh, R Liu, J Jing… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
While extensive investigations have been devoted to the study of genetic pathways related
to fatty liver diseases, much less is known about epigenetic mechanisms underlying these …

Interplay between GH-regulated, sex-biased liver transcriptome and hepatic zonation revealed by single-nucleus RNA sequencing

CN Goldfarb, K Karri, M Pyatkov, DJ Waxman - Endocrinology, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The zonation of liver metabolic processes is well-characterized; however, little is known
about the cell type-specificity and zonation of sexually dimorphic gene expression or its …

Single-cell transcriptomics shows dose-dependent disruption of hepatic zonation by TCDD in mice

R Nault, S Saha, S Bhattacharya, S Sinha… - Toxicological …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Abstract 2, 3, 7, 8-Tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD) dose-dependently induces the
development of hepatic fat accumulation and inflammation with fibrosis in mice initially in the …