Nature Communications (Oct 2018)

Following hearts, one cell at a time: recent applications of single-cell RNA sequencing to the understanding of heart disease

  • Matthew Ackers-Johnson,
  • Wilson Lek Wen Tan,
  • Roger Sik-Yin Foo

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06894-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 4

Abstract

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Abstract The mammalian heart contains heterogeneous cell types contributing to pathological changes in cardiac disease. In this Comment, we explore how single-cell transcriptomic approaches are unveiling intricate cellular mechanisms and gene co-expression networks that regulate the workings, and failings, of the heart.