Nature Communications (Jun 2022)

Endothelial cell heterogeneity and microglia regulons revealed by a pig cell landscape at single-cell level

  • Fei Wang,
  • Peiwen Ding,
  • Xue Liang,
  • Xiangning Ding,
  • Camilla Blunk Brandt,
  • Evelina Sjöstedt,
  • Jiacheng Zhu,
  • Saga Bolund,
  • Lijing Zhang,
  • Laura P. M. H. de Rooij,
  • Lihua Luo,
  • Yanan Wei,
  • Wandong Zhao,
  • Zhiyuan Lv,
  • János Haskó,
  • Runchu Li,
  • Qiuyu Qin,
  • Yi Jia,
  • Wendi Wu,
  • Yuting Yuan,
  • Mingyi Pu,
  • Haoyu Wang,
  • Aiping Wu,
  • Lin Xie,
  • Ping Liu,
  • Fang Chen,
  • Jacqueline Herold,
  • Joanna Kalucka,
  • Max Karlsson,
  • Xiuqing Zhang,
  • Rikke Bek Helmig,
  • Linn Fagerberg,
  • Cecilia Lindskog,
  • Fredrik Pontén,
  • Mathias Uhlen,
  • Lars Bolund,
  • Niels Jessen,
  • Hui Jiang,
  • Xun Xu,
  • Huanming Yang,
  • Peter Carmeliet,
  • Jan Mulder,
  • Dongsheng Chen,
  • Lin Lin,
  • Yonglun Luo

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-31388-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 18

Abstract

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Pigs are important large animal models for biomedical research. Here, the authors construct a single-cell landscape of pig tissues, unravelling the phenotypic heterogeneity of blood endothelial cells in adipose tissues and the evolutionally conserved regulons of microglia in brains.