Accession PRJCA014157
Title Single-cell RNA-seq combined spatial transcriptomics analysis decipher cell atlas of human ligament and reveal the process of ligament degeneration
Relevance Medical
Data types Single cell sequencing
Organisms Homo sapiens
Description Anterior cruciate ligament degeneration is an important origin of knee osteoarthritis and a common threat to athletic ability. However, the cellular heterogeneity and underlying mechanisms in the degeneration process remain elusive. To systematically identify and localize cell compartments in normal and degenerated ligaments and investigate how cellular compositions, functions, and interactions participated in the ligamental degeneration, we built a cell atlas of the healthy and degenerated human ligament using scRNA-seq and spRNA-seq. We identified new fibroblast subgroups contributed to the disease and mapped out their spatial distribution in the tissue and revealed two stages of the degenerative process. We compared the cellular interactions between different tissue states and identified important signaling pathways may contribute to the disease. These findings will help us better understand anterior cruciate ligamental degeneration pathogenesis, and provide potential targets for ligamental injury therapies.
Sample scope Single cell
Release date 2024-03-20
Publication
PubMed ID Article title Journal name DOI Year
A single-cell atlas depicting the cellular and molecular features in human ligamental degeneration: a single cell combined spatial transcriptomics study Medrxiv 10.1101/2023.01.05.23284219 2023
Grants
Agency program Grant ID Grant title
National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) 82172508
Submitter WEILI FU (foxwin2008@163.com)
Organization West China Hospital of Sichuan University
Submission date 2022-12-30

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