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ArticleCurrent protocols2021

Assembly and Exploration of a Single Cell Atlas of the Drosophila Larval Ventral Cord. Identification of Rare Cell Types.

Rosario Vicidomini, Tho Huu Nguyen, Saumitra Dey Choudhury, Thomas Brody, Mihaela Serpe

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Article in Current protocols, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 8 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Inflammatory cytokine upd3 induces axon length-dependent synapse removal by glia.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  5. Physiologic and Nanoscale Distinctions Define Glutamatergic Synapses in Tonic vs Phasic Neurons.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2023
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Rosario VicidominiSection on Cellular Communication, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland.
Tho Huu NguyenSection on Cellular Communication, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland.
Saumitra Dey ChoudhurySection on Cellular Communication, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland.
Thomas BrodySection on Cellular Communication, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland.
Mihaela SerpeSection on Cellular Communication, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland.

Funding

Mechanisms of synapse developmentZIAHD008914 · NICHD · EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH & HUMAN DEVELOPMENT · PI SERPE, MIHAELA · 2011 to 2025
$16.4M
Modulation of TGF-beta signalingZIAHD008869 · NICHD · EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH & HUMAN DEVELOPMENT · PI SERPE, MIHAELA · 2009 to 2025
$8.0M
Intramural NIH HHS ZIA HD008869Intramural NIH HHS ZIA HD008914National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Single-cell RNA sequencing provides a new approach to an old problem: how to study cellular diversity in complex biological systems. This powerful tool has been instrumental in profiling different cell types and investigating, at the single-cell level, cell states, functions, and responses. However, mining these data requires new analytical and statistical methods for high-dimensional analyses that must be customized and adapted to specific goals. Here we present a custom multistage analysis pipeline which integrates modules contained in different R packages to ensure flexible, high-quality RNA-seq data analysis. We describe this workflow step by step, providing the codes, explaining the rationale for each function, and discussing the results and the limitations. We apply this pipeline to analyze different datasets of Drosophila larval ventral cords, identifying and describing rare cell types, such as astrocytes and neuroendocrine cells. This multistage analysis pipeline can be easily implemented by both novice and experienced scientists interested in neuronal and/or cellular diversity beyond the Drosophila model system. © 2021 US Government.

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Single-Cell AnalysisSoftwareAnimalsDrosophilaGene Expression ProfilingLarvacell type identificationclusteringdimensionality reductionmultisample integrationR pipelinescRNA-seq

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PMID33600085
PMCPMC7899083

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