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ArticleJournal of cerebral blood flow and metabolism : official journal of the International Society of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism2021

Integrative analysis of the human brain mural cell transcriptome.

Benjamin D Gastfriend, Koji L Foreman, Moriah E Katt, Sean P Palecek, Eric V Shusta

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Article in Journal of cerebral blood flow and metabolism : official journal of the International Society of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.

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20citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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20 citing papers in PubMed, 26 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Benjamin D GastfriendDepartment of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA.
Koji L ForemanDepartment of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA.
Moriah E KattDepartment of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA.
Sean P PalecekDepartment of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA.
Eric V ShustaDepartment of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA.
University of Wisconsin–Madison · US

Funding

UW COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTER SUPPORTP30CA014520 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON · PI Christian Capitini · 1985 to 2026
$142.6M
BIOTECHNOLOGY TRAINING PROGRAMT32GM008349 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON · PI FOX, BRIAN G · 1989 to 2019
$22.5M
Institutional Training in the Genomic SciencesT32HG002760 · NHGRI · UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON · PI Qiongshi Lu · 2003 to 2026
$17.7M
Investigating Pericyte Roles in Blood-Brain Barrier FormationR01NS103844 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON · PI SHUSTA, ERIC V · 2018 to 2022
$1.9M
Mechanisms of Shear Induction of Blood-Brain Barrier Phenotypes in Human iPSC-derived Brain Endothelial ProgenitorsR01NS107461 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON · PI PALECEK, SEAN P · 2019 to 2023
$1.7M
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA014520NHGRI NIH HHS T32 HG002760NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM008349NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS103844NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS107461
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Brain mural cells, including pericytes and vascular smooth muscle cells, are important for vascular development, blood-brain barrier function, and neurovascular coupling, but the molecular characteristics of human brain mural cells are incompletely characterized. Single cell RNA-sequencing (scRNA-seq) is increasingly being applied to assess cellular diversity in the human brain, but the scarcity of mural cells in whole brain samples has limited their molecular profiling. Here, we leverage the combined power of multiple independent human brain scRNA-seq datasets to build a transcriptomic database of human brain mural cells. We use this combined dataset to determine human-mouse species differences in mural cell transcriptomes, culture-induced dedifferentiation of human brain pericytes, and human mural cell organotypicity, with several key findings validated by RNA fluorescence

Indexed as

AnimalsBlood-Brain BarrierBrainHumansIn Situ Hybridization, FluorescenceIntegrative MedicineMiceMyocytes, Smooth MuscleNeurovascular CouplingPericytesRNA-SeqRNA, Small CytoplasmicTranscriptomeRNA, Small CytoplasmicBrain mural cellsneurovascular unitpericytessingle cell RNA-sequencingvascular smooth muscle cells

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PMID34027687
PMCPMC8756477
OpenAlexW3164156748

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