Nature Communications (Apr 2019)

Origin and differentiation trajectories of fibroblastic reticular cells in the splenic white pulp

  • Hung-Wei Cheng,
  • Lucas Onder,
  • Mario Novkovic,
  • Charlotte Soneson,
  • Mechthild Lütge,
  • Natalia Pikor,
  • Elke Scandella,
  • Mark D. Robinson,
  • Jun-ichi Miyazaki,
  • Anne Tersteegen,
  • Ursula Sorg,
  • Klaus Pfeffer,
  • Thomas Rülicke,
  • Thomas Hehlgans,
  • Burkhard Ludewig

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09728-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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The white pulp of spleen is an important immune structure dynamically modulated during development and immune responses. Here the authors define, using multi-color lineage tracing and single-cell transcriptome analysis, the subset distribution and differentiation trajectory of fibroblastic reticular cells to serve structural insights for splenic white pulps.