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 …

The emerging nature of astrocyte diversity

BS Khakh, B Deneen - Annual review of neuroscience, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Astrocytes are morphologically complex, ubiquitous cells that are viewed as a
homogeneous population tiling the entire central nervous system (CNS). However, this view …

A microbiome-dependent gut–brain pathway regulates motivation for exercise

L Dohnalová, P Lundgren, JRE Carty, N Goldstein… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Exercise exerts a wide range of beneficial effects for healthy physiology 1. However, the
mechanisms regulating an individual's motivation to engage in physical activity remain …

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 …

Negative feedback control of neuronal activity by microglia

A Badimon, HJ Strasburger, P Ayata, X Chen, A Nair… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Microglia, the brain's resident macrophages, help to regulate brain function by removing
dying neurons, pruning non-functional synapses, and producing ligands that support …

Human neocortical expansion involves glutamatergic neuron diversification

J Berg, SA Sorensen, JT Ting, JA Miller, T Chartrand… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
The neocortex is disproportionately expanded in human compared with mouse,, both in its
total volume relative to subcortical structures and in the proportion occupied by …

[HTML][HTML] Neuronal types in the mouse amygdala and their transcriptional response to fear conditioning

H Hochgerner, S Singh, M Tibi, Z Lin… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The amygdala is a brain region primarily associated with emotional response. The use of
genetic markers and single-cell transcriptomics can provide insights into behavior …

[HTML][HTML] White matter aging drives microglial diversity

S Safaiyan, S Besson-Girard, T Kaya… - Neuron, 2021 - cell.com
Aging results in gray and white matter degeneration, but the specific microglial responses
are unknown. Using single-cell RNA sequencing from white and gray matter separately, we …

Single-cell transcriptomics of 20 mouse organs creates a Tabula Muris

T Iram - Nature, 2018 - weizmann.elsevierpure.com
Here we present a compendium of single-cell transcriptomic data from the model organism
Mus musculus that comprises more than 100,000 cells from 20 organs and tissues. These …

Single-cell transcriptomics of 20 mouse organs creates a Tabula Muris: The Tabula Muris Consortium

N Schaum, J Karkanias, NF Neff, AP May, SR Quake… - Nature, 2018 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
We have created a compendium of single cell transcriptomic data from the model organism
Mus musculus comprising more than 100,000 cells from 20 organs and tissues. These data …