Frontiers in Surgery (Jun 2022)

Single-Cell Transcriptional Analysis Deciphers the Inflammatory Response of Skin-Resident Stromal Cells

  • Baoyi Liu,
  • Baoyi Liu,
  • Ang Li,
  • Ang Li,
  • Jingkai Xu,
  • Yong Cui,
  • Yong Cui

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3389/fsurg.2022.935107
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9

Abstract

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The skin is the outermost barrier of the body. It has developed a sophisticated system against the ever-changing environment. The application of single-cell technologies has revolutionized dermatology research and unraveled the changes and interactions across skin resident cells in the healthy and inflamed skin. Single-cell technologies have revealed the critical roles of stromal cells in an inflammatory response and explained a series of plausible previous findings concerning skin immunity. Here, we summarized the functional diversity of skin stromal cells defined by single-cell analyses and how these cells orchestrated events leading to inflammatory diseases, including atopic dermatitis, psoriasis, vitiligo, and systemic lupus erythematosus.

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