The spine has essential roles in supporting body weight, and passaging the neural elements between the body and the brain. In this study, we used integrated single-cell RNA sequencing and single-cell transposase-accessible chromatin sequencing analyses to reveal the cellular heterogeneity, lineage, and transcriptional regulatory network of the developing human spine. We found that + + fibroblasts with stem cell characteristics could differentiate into chondrocytes by highly expressing the chondrogenic markers and . Neurons could originate from neuroendocrine cells, and MEIS2 may be an essential transcription factor that promotes spinal neural progenitor cells to selectively differentiate into neurons during early gestation. Furthermore, the interaction of NRP2_SEMA3C and CD74_APP between macrophages and neurons may be essential for spinal cord development. Our integrated map provides a blueprint for understanding human spine development in the early and midgestational stages at single-cell resolution and offers a tool for investigating related diseases.
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J Transl Med
January 2025
State Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Diseases and Medical Innovation Center, School of Medicine, Shanghai East Hospital, Tongji University, Shanghai, 200120, China.
Background: Dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) is one of the most common causes of heart failure. Infiltration and alterations in non-cardiomyocytes of the human heart involve crucially in the occurrence of DCM and associated immunotherapeutic approaches.
Methods: We constructed a single-cell transcriptional atlas of DCM and normal patients.
Inflamm Res
January 2025
Queen's Belfast University, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK.
Background: Giant cell arteritis (GCA) is a prevalent artery and is strongly correlated with age. The role of CD4+ Memory T cells in giant cell arteritis has not been elucidated.
Method: Through single-cell analysis, we focused on the CD4+ Memory T cells in giant cell arteritis.
J Proteome Res
January 2025
Department of Pediatric Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, Henan 450052, China.
Neuroblastoma (NB) remains associated with high mortality and low initial response rate, especially for high-risk patients, thus warranting exploration of molecular markers for precision risk classifiers. Through integrating multiomics profiling, we identified a range of hub genes involved in cell cycle and associated with dismal prognosis and malignant cells. Single-cell transcriptome sequencing revealed that a subset of malignant cells, subcluster 1, characterized by high proliferation and dedifferentiation, was strongly correlated with the hub gene signature and orchestrated an immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment (TME).
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January 2025
Laboratory of Neural Plasticity, Faculties of Medicine and Science, Brain Research Institute, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
The mammalian dentate gyrus (DG) is involved in certain forms of learning and memory, and DG dysfunction has been implicated in age-related diseases. Although neurogenic potential is maintained throughout life in the DG as neural stem cells (NSCs) continue to generate new neurons, neurogenesis decreases with advancing age, with implications for age-related cognitive decline and disease. In this study, we used single-cell RNA sequencing to characterize transcriptomic signatures of neurogenic cells and their surrounding DG niche, identifying molecular changes associated with neurogenic aging from the activation of quiescent NSCs to the maturation of fate-committed progeny.
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January 2025
Division of Biostatistics, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Circulating proteins may be promising biomarkers or drug targets. Leveraging genome-wide association studies of type 1 diabetes (18,942 cases and 501,638 controls of European ancestry) and circulating protein abundances (10,708 European ancestry individuals), Mendelian randomization analyses were conducted to assess the associations between circulating abundances of 1,560 candidate proteins and the risk of type 1 diabetes, followed by multiple sensitivity and colocalization analyses, horizontal pleiotropy examinations, and replications. Bulk tissue and single-cell gene expression enrichment analyses were performed to explore candidate tissues and cell types for prioritized proteins.
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