Nature Communications (Jan 2021)

Single-cell transcriptome profiling of the vaginal wall in women with severe anterior vaginal prolapse

  • Yaqian Li,
  • Qing-Yang Zhang,
  • Bao-Fa Sun,
  • Yidi Ma,
  • Ye Zhang,
  • Min Wang,
  • Congcong Ma,
  • Honghui Shi,
  • Zhijing Sun,
  • Juan Chen,
  • Yun-Gui Yang,
  • Lan Zhu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20358-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Anterior vaginal prolapse (AVP), the most common form of pelvic organ prolapse, has deleterious effects on women’s health. Here the authors employ single-cell RNA-seq to construct a transcriptomic atlas of vaginal wall cells from AVP patients, and find that extracellular matrix dysregulation and immune reaction are associated with AVP.