Nature Communications (Jun 2016)

Microfluidic single-cell transcriptional analysis rationally identifies novel surface marker profiles to enhance cell-based therapies

  • Robert C. Rennert,
  • Michael Januszyk,
  • Michael Sorkin,
  • Melanie Rodrigues,
  • Zeshaan N. Maan,
  • Dominik Duscher,
  • Alexander J. Whittam,
  • Revanth Kosaraju,
  • Michael T. Chung,
  • Kevin Paik,
  • Alexander Y. Li,
  • Michael Findlay,
  • Jason P. Glotzbach,
  • Atul J. Butte,
  • Geoffrey C. Gurtner

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11945
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Unrecognized progenitor cell perturbations underlying a disease state may limit the efficacy of cell therapies. Here, the authors use high-throughput, single-cell transcriptional analysis to identify disease-specific cellular alterations and prospectively isolate restorative cell subpopulations.