Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics: deciphering brain complexity in health and disease

M Piwecka, N Rajewsky, A Rybak-Wolf - Nature Reviews Neurology, 2023 - nature.com
In the past decade, single-cell technologies have proliferated and improved from their
technically challenging beginnings to become common laboratory methods capable of …

Integrative neurocircuits that control metabolism and food intake

JC Brüning, H Fenselau - Science, 2023 - science.org
Systemic metabolism has to be constantly adjusted to the variance of food intake and even
be prepared for anticipated changes in nutrient availability. Therefore, the brain integrates …

The molecular cytoarchitecture of the adult mouse brain

J Langlieb, NS Sachdev, KS Balderrama, NM Nadaf… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
The function of the mammalian brain relies upon the specification and spatial positioning of
diversely specialized cell types. Yet, the molecular identities of the cell types and their …

HypoMap—a unified single-cell gene expression atlas of the murine hypothalamus

L Steuernagel, BYH Lam, P Klemm, GKC Dowsett… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The hypothalamus plays a key role in coordinating fundamental body functions. Despite
recent progress in single-cell technologies, a unified catalog and molecular characterization …

Identification of functional heterogeneity of carcinoma-associated fibroblasts with distinct IL6-mediated therapy resistance in pancreatic cancer

KM McAndrews, Y Chen, JK Darpolor, X Zheng… - Cancer …, 2022 - aacrjournals.org
The tumor microenvironment in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) involves a
significant accumulation of fibroblasts as part of the host response to cancer. Using single …

Understanding how dimension reduction tools work: an empirical approach to deciphering t-SNE, UMAP, TriMAP, and PaCMAP for data visualization

Y Wang, H Huang, C Rudin, Y Shaposhnik - Journal of Machine Learning …, 2021 - jmlr.org
Dimension reduction (DR) techniques such as t-SNE, UMAP, and TriMap have
demonstrated impressive visualization performance on many real-world datasets. One …

The emergence and influence of internal states

SW Flavell, N Gogolla, M Lovett-Barron, M Zelikowsky - Neuron, 2022 - cell.com
Animal behavior is shaped by a variety of" internal states"—partially hidden variables that
profoundly shape perception, cognition, and action. The neural basis of internal states, such …

Single-cell transcriptomic profiling of the aging mouse brain

M **merakis, SL Lipnick, BT Innes, SK Simmons… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
The mammalian brain is complex, with multiple cell types performing a variety of diverse
functions, but exactly how each cell type is affected in aging remains largely unknown. Here …

Challenges in unsupervised clustering of single-cell RNA-seq data

VY Kiselev, TS Andrews, M Hemberg - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2019 - nature.com
Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) allows researchers to collect large catalogues
detailing the transcriptomes of individual cells. Unsupervised clustering is of central …

Semaglutide lowers body weight in rodents via distributed neural pathways

S Gabery, CG Salinas, SJ Paulsen… - JCI …, 2020 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Semaglutide, a glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1) analog, induces weight loss, lowers
glucose levels, and reduces cardiovascular risk in patients with diabetes. Mechanistic …