ArticleCommunications biology2022
Three-dimensional spatial transcriptomics uncovers cell type localizations in the human rheumatoid arthritis synovium.
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- The regnase family in autoimmune diseases: a regnase-1-centered perspective on cellular heterogeneity.Molecular biology reports · 2026Review
- Immune-mediated rheumatoid arthritis: from single-cell genomics to new therapies.Nature immunology · 2026Review
- Spatial Transcriptomics Identifies Muscle Inflammation Susceptibility as a Distinct Periarticular Skeletal Muscle Phenotype in End-Stage Knee Osteoarthritis.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Long-Term Outcomes in Seronegative Rheumatoid Arthritis.Arthritis care & research · 2026Article
- Spatial Transcriptomic Profiling Reveals Microenvironment-Dependent Immune Signatures in a Lyme Arthritis model.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Decoding Immune Regulation: From Genetic Variation to Mechanism Through Single-Cell Genomics.Immune network · 2026Review
- Toward Precision Health in Autoimmunity and Immune-Related Adverse Events: The Autoantibody Reactome, Spatial Omics, and Multimodal Data Integration.Biomedicines · 2026Article
- Spatial transcriptomics: challenges and future directions in musculoskeletal diseases.Current opinion in rheumatology · 2026Review
- Computational approaches to multimodal data integration in rheumatoid arthritis: from data landscape to clinical translation.Briefings in bioinformatics · 2026Review
- So3D: a comprehensive three-dimensional spatial omics resource for decoding tissue architecture in physiology and disease.Nucleic acids research · 2026Article
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- B cell receptor signaling in autoimmune rheumatic diseases: regulatory mechanisms and therapeutic targeting.Frontiers in immunology · 2026Review
- Targeting the NLRP3 inflammasome in rheumatoid arthritis fibroblast-like synoviocytes: pathogenic mechanisms, therapeutic strategies, and translational perspectives.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2026Review
- Targeting the synovial engine: next-generation engineered immune cells to eradicate pathogenic FLS in rheumatoid arthritis, with safety-first, selective designs.Frontiers in immunology · 2026Review
- Can alternatives to animal testing yield useful information regarding biological mechanisms and drug discovery?Journal of orthopaedic translation · 2025Review
- Spatial transcriptomic applications in orthopedics.Connective tissue research · 2025Review
- STCC enhances spatial domain detection through consensus clustering of spatial transcriptomics data.Genome research · 2025Article
- Fibroblasts in immune responses, inflammatory diseases and therapeutic implications.Nature reviews. Rheumatology · 2025Review
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Abstract
The inflamed rheumatic joint is a highly heterogeneous and complex tissue with dynamic recruitment and expansion of multiple cell types that interact in multifaceted ways within a localized area. Rheumatoid arthritis synovium has primarily been studied either by immunostaining or by molecular profiling after tissue homogenization. Here, we use Spatial Transcriptomics, where tissue-resident RNA is spatially labeled in situ with barcodes in a transcriptome-wide fashion, to study local tissue interactions at the site of chronic synovial inflammation. We report comprehensive spatial RNA-Seq data coupled to cell type-specific localization patterns at and around organized structures of infiltrating leukocyte cells in the synovium. Combining morphological features and high-throughput spatially resolved transcriptomics may be able to provide higher statistical power and more insights into monitoring disease severity and treatment-specific responses in seropositive and seronegative rheumatoid arthritis.
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