Nature Communications (Aug 2022)

A single-cell atlas of the multicellular ecosystem of primary and metastatic hepatocellular carcinoma

  • Yiming Lu,
  • Aiqing Yang,
  • Cheng Quan,
  • Yingwei Pan,
  • Haoyun Zhang,
  • Yuanfeng Li,
  • Chengming Gao,
  • Hao Lu,
  • Xueting Wang,
  • Pengbo Cao,
  • Hongxia Chen,
  • Shichun Lu,
  • Gangqiao Zhou

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-32283-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 18

Abstract

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The immune cell constituents and localisation within human hepatocellular carcinoma is not fully understood. Here the authors use single cell RNA sequencing of HCC from four different tissue sites and show differences between primary and metastatic tumours, tumour associated macrophages and immune cell populations.