Single-cell RNA sequencing in vision research: Insights into human retinal health and disease

AP Voigt, NK Mullin, EM Stone, BA Tucker… - Progress in retinal and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Gene expression provides valuable insight into cell function. As such, vision researchers
have frequently employed gene expression studies to better understand retinal physiology …

The crosstalk between glomerular endothelial cells and podocytes controls their responses to metabolic stimuli in diabetic nephropathy

M Albrecht, C Sticht, T Wagner, SA Hettler… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
In diabetic nephropathy (DN), glomerular endothelial cells (GECs) and podocytes undergo
pathological alterations, which are influenced by metabolic changes characteristic of …

Contribution of inhibitor of DNA binding/differentiation‐3 and endocrine disrupting chemicals to pathophysiological aspects of chronic disease

V Avecilla, M Doke, Q Felty - BioMed research international, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The overwhelming increase in the global incidence of obesity and its associated
complications such as insulin resistance, atherosclerosis, pulmonary disease, and …

Single-cell profiling coupled with lineage analysis reveals vagal and sacral neural crest contributions to the developing enteric nervous system

J Jacobs-Li, W Tang, C Li, ME Bronner - Elife, 2023 - elifesciences.org
During development, much of the enteric nervous system (ENS) arises from the vagal neural
crest that emerges from the caudal hindbrain and colonizes the entire gastrointestinal tract …

Interruption of vascular endothelial growth factor receptor 2 signaling induces a proliferative pulmonary vasculopathy and pulmonary hypertension

MP Winter, S Sharma, J Altmann, V Seidl… - Basic Research in …, 2020 - Springer
Pulmonary arterial hypertension is a severe and progressive disease characterized by a
pulmonary vascular remodeling process with expansion of collateral endothelial cells and …

Bulk and single-cell gene expression analyses reveal aging human choriocapillaris has pro-inflammatory phenotype

AP Voigt, SS Whitmore, K Mulfaul, KR Chirco… - Microvascular …, 2020 - Elsevier
The human choroidal vasculature is subject to age-related structural and gene expression
changes implicated in age-related macular degeneration (AMD). In this study, we performed …

Brain infiltration of breast cancer stem cells is facilitated by paracrine signaling by inhibitor of differentiation 3 to nuclear respiratory factor 1

JK Das, A Deoraj, D Roy, Q Felty - Journal of Cancer Research and …, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Treatment options for brain metastatic breast cancer are limited because the
molecular mechanism for how breast cancer cells infiltrate the brain is not fully understood …

Integrated transcriptomics of human blood vessels defines a spatially controlled niche for early mesenchymal progenitor cells

Y Wang, N Thottappillil, M Gomez-Salazar, RJ Tower… - Developmental cell, 2024 - cell.com
Human blood vessel walls show concentric layers, with the outermost tunica adventitia
harboring mesenchymal progenitor cells. These progenitor cells maintain vessel …

[HTML][HTML] Silibinin is a suppressor of the metastasis-promoting transcription factor ID3

S Verdura, JA Encinar, A Gratchev, À Llop-Hernández… - Phytomedicine, 2024 - Elsevier
Background ID3 (inhibitor of DNA binding/differentiation-3) is a transcription factor that
enables metastasis by promoting stem cell-like properties in endothelial and tumor cells …

Transcriptional synergy as an emergent property defining cell subpopulation identity enables population shift

S Okawa, C Saltó, S Ravichandran, S Yang… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Single-cell RNA sequencing allows defining molecularly distinct cell subpopulations.
However, the identification of specific sets of transcription factors (TFs) that define the …