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MorphoCellSorter is an Andrews plot-based sorting approach to rank microglia according to their morphological features.

Sarah Benkeder, Son-Michel Dinh, Paul Marchal, Priscille De Gea, Muriel Thoby-Brisson, Violaine Hubert, Ines Hristovska, Gabriel Pitollat, Kassandre Combet, Laura Cardoit and 7 more

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Article in eLife, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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17 authors.

Sarah BenkederClaude Bernard Lyon 1 University, Lyon, France.
Son-Michel DinhInstitut MeLiS, INSERM U1314 CNRS UMR5284, Lyon, France.
Paul MarchalClaude Bernard Lyon 1 University, Lyon, France.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2821-8119
Priscille De GeaClaude Bernard Lyon 1 University, Lyon, France.
Muriel Thoby-BrissonInstitut de Neurosciences Cognitives et Intégratives d'Aquitaine, CNRS UMR 5287, Université de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3214-1724
Violaine HubertClaude Bernard Lyon 1 University, Lyon, France.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5656-5690
Ines HristovskaClaude Bernard Lyon 1 University, Lyon, France.
Gabriel PitollatInstitut de Neurosciences Cognitives et Intégratives d'Aquitaine, CNRS UMR 5287, Université de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France.
Kassandre CombetClaude Bernard Lyon 1 University, Lyon, France.
Laura CardoitInstitut de Neurosciences Cognitives et Intégratives d'Aquitaine, CNRS UMR 5287, Université de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France.
Bruno PillotClaude Bernard Lyon 1 University, Lyon, France.
Christelle LeonClaude Bernard Lyon 1 University, Lyon, France.
Marlene WiartCarMeN Laboratory, INRAE U1397, INSERM U1060, Claude Bernard Lyon 1 University, Lyon, France.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0326-7002
Serge MarthySorbonne Université, Institut du Cerveau - Paris Brain Institute - ICM, Inserm, CNRS, APHP, Hôpital de la Pitié Salpêtrière, Paris, France.
Jérôme HonnoratClaude Bernard Lyon 1 University, Lyon, France.
Olivier Pascual *Claude Bernard Lyon 1 University, Lyon, France.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5730-9880
Jean-Christophe Comte *Claude Bernard Lyon 1 University, Lyon, France.

Funding

Agence Nationale de la Recherche ANR-11-LABX-0042Agence Nationale de la Recherche ANR-18-RHUS-0012Fondation pour la Recherche Médicale DQ20170336751
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Microglia exhibit diverse morphologies reflecting environmental conditions, maturity, or functional states. Thus, morphological characterization provides important information to understand microglial roles and functions. Most recent morphological analysis relies on classifying cells based on morphological parameters. However, this classification may lack biological relevance, as microglial morphologies represent a continuum rather than distinct, separate groups, and do not correspond to mathematically defined clusters irrelevant of microglial cells function. Instead, we propose a new open-source tool, MorphoCellSorter, which assesses microglial morphology by automatically computing morphological criteria, using principal component analysis and Andrews plots to score cells. MorphoCellSorter properly ranked cells from various microglia datasets in mice and rats of different ages, from

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Image Processing, Computer-AssistedMicrogliaSoftwareAnimalsMicePrincipal Component AnalysisRatscomputational biologyhumanmouseneuroscienceratrodentsystems biologyvertebrate

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PMID40387080
PMCPMC12088675

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