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ArticleMicroarrays (Basel, Switzerland)2015

Evaluating the Effect of Cell Culture on Gene Expression in Primary Tissue Samples Using Microfluidic-Based Single Cell Transcriptional Analysis.

Michael Januszyk, Robert C Rennert, Michael Sorkin, Zeshaan N Maan, Lisa K Wong, Alexander J Whittam, Arnetha Whitmore, Dominik Duscher, Geoffrey C Gurtner

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Article in Microarrays (Basel, Switzerland), 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 33 papers.

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33citing papers in PubMed
1.8field-weighted citation impact, top 15% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

33 citing papers in PubMed, 50 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Michael JanuszykDepartment of Surgery, Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, 257 Campus Drive West, Hagey Building GK-201, Stanford, CA 94305-5148, USA. januszyk@stanford.edu.
Robert C RennertDepartment of Surgery, Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, 257 Campus Drive West, Hagey Building GK-201, Stanford, CA 94305-5148, USA. rrennert@stanford.edu.
Michael SorkinDepartment of Surgery, Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, 257 Campus Drive West, Hagey Building GK-201, Stanford, CA 94305-5148, USA. msorkin@med.umich.edu.
Zeshaan N MaanDepartment of Surgery, Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, 257 Campus Drive West, Hagey Building GK-201, Stanford, CA 94305-5148, USA. zmaan@stanford.edu.
Lisa K WongDepartment of Surgery, Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, 257 Campus Drive West, Hagey Building GK-201, Stanford, CA 94305-5148, USA. Lisakanata@gmail.com.
Alexander J WhittamDepartment of Surgery, Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, 257 Campus Drive West, Hagey Building GK-201, Stanford, CA 94305-5148, USA. arnethaw@stanford.edu.
Arnetha WhitmoreDepartment of Surgery, Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, 257 Campus Drive West, Hagey Building GK-201, Stanford, CA 94305-5148, USA. arnethaw@stanford.edu.
Dominik DuscherDepartment of Surgery, Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, 257 Campus Drive West, Hagey Building GK-201, Stanford, CA 94305-5148, USA. dominikduscher@me.com.
Geoffrey C GurtnerDepartment of Surgery, Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, 257 Campus Drive West, Hagey Building GK-201, Stanford, CA 94305-5148, USA. ggurtner@stanford.edu.
Stanford University · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Significant transcriptional heterogeneity is an inherent property of complex tissues such as tumors and healing wounds. Traditional methods of high-throughput analysis rely on pooling gene expression data from hundreds of thousands of cells and reporting a population-wide average that is unable to capture differences within distinct cell subsets. Recent advances in microfluidic technology have permitted the development of large-scale single cell analytic methods that overcome this limitation. The increased granularity afforded by such approaches allows us to answer the critical question of whether expansion in cell culture significantly alters the transcriptional characteristics of cells isolated from primary tissue. Here we examine an established population of human adipose-derived stem cells (ASCs) using a novel, microfluidic-based method for high-throughput transcriptional interrogation, coupled with advanced bioinformatic analysis, to evaluate the dynamics of single cell gene expression among primary, passage 0, and passage 1 stem cells. We find significant differences in the transcriptional profiles of cells from each group, as well as a considerable shift in subpopulation dynamics as those subgroups better able to adhere and proliferate under these culture conditions gradually emerge as dominant. Taken together, these findings reinforce the importance of using primary or very early passage cells in future studies.

Indexed as

bioinformaticscell culturegene expressionmicrofluidicssinge-cellsubpopulationstranscriptional analysis

Identifiers

PMID27600239
PMCPMC4996408
OpenAlexW2113314981

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