Nature Communications (Jun 2020)

Cellular census of human fibrosis defines functionally distinct stromal cell types and states

  • Thomas B. Layton,
  • Lynn Williams,
  • Fiona McCann,
  • Mingjun Zhang,
  • Marco Fritzsche,
  • Huw Colin-York,
  • Marisa Cabrita,
  • Michael T. H. Ng,
  • Marc Feldmann,
  • Stephen N. Sansom,
  • Dominic Furniss,
  • Weilin Xie,
  • Jagdeep Nanchahal

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16264-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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New anti-fibrotics aided by a better understanding of fibrotic cell subsets and their functions are needed. Here the authors perform single-cell RNA-seq and CyTOF on nodules from patients with Dupuytren’s disease to map subsets and the state of mesenchymal cells during pathogenic fibrogenesis.