Nature Communications (Mar 2021)

Immune cell profiling of the cerebrospinal fluid enables the characterization of the brain metastasis microenvironment

  • Carlota Rubio-Perez,
  • Ester Planas-Rigol,
  • Juan L. Trincado,
  • Ester Bonfill-Teixidor,
  • Alexandra Arias,
  • Domenica Marchese,
  • Catia Moutinho,
  • Garazi Serna,
  • Leire Pedrosa,
  • Raffaella Iurlaro,
  • Francisco Martínez-Ricarte,
  • Laura Escudero,
  • Esteban Cordero,
  • Marta Cicuendez,
  • Sara Ruiz,
  • Genís Parra,
  • Paolo Nuciforo,
  • Josep Gonzalez,
  • Estela Pineda,
  • Juan Sahuquillo,
  • Josep Tabernero,
  • Holger Heyn,
  • Joan Seoane

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21789-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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The use of CSF for diagnosis of metastatic brain tumors could be of clinical and patient benefit. Here the authors undertake a single-cell RNA analysis of CSF and brain to determine whether the phenotype in the CSF is reflective of the phenotype in the tumor.