Evidence map›Paper›PMID 41694378›Full record

ArticleFrontiers in immunology2026

Single-nucleus and spatial transcriptomics reveal intestinal cellular heterogeneity, differentiation, and cell communication mechanisms in SAP-induced intestinal injury.

Lechang Zhang, Changqin Xu, Tong Su, Tong Xiao, Xu Yi, Yuemin Feng, Jing Wang, Shulei Zhao

Abstract read
In one paragraph

Article in Frontiers in immunology, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
2citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Review
  2. Review
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Lechang Zhang *Department of Gastroenterology, Shandong Provincial Hospital Affiliated to Shandong First Medical University, Jinan, Shandong, China.
Changqin Xu *Department of Gastroenterology, Shandong Provincial Hospital Affiliated to Shandong First Medical University, Jinan, Shandong, China.
Tong SuDepartment of Gastroenterology, Shandong Provincial Hospital Affiliated to Shandong First Medical University, Jinan, Shandong, China.
Tong XiaoDepartment of Gastroenterology, Shandong Provincial Hospital Affiliated to Shandong First Medical University, Jinan, Shandong, China.
Xu YiDepartment of Gastroenterology, Shandong Provincial Hospital Affiliated to Shandong First Medical University, Jinan, Shandong, China.
Yuemin FengDepartment of Gastroenterology, Shandong Provincial Hospital Affiliated to Shandong First Medical University, Jinan, Shandong, China.
Jing WangDepartment of Gastroenterology, Shandong Provincial Hospital Affiliated to Shandong First Medical University, Jinan, Shandong, China.
Shulei ZhaoDepartment of Gastroenterology, Shandong Provincial Hospital Affiliated to Shandong First Medical University, Jinan, Shandong, China.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Background: Acute pancreatitis (AP) ranges from mild to severe, and severe disease frequently causes multi-organ damage, with intestinal injury being a major complication. The mechanisms underlying SAP-induced intestinal injury remain unclear, particularly regarding spatial cellular reorganization and functional interactions. Methods: This study constructed a severe acute pancreatitis (SAP) rat model and employed single-nucleus RNA sequencing (snRNA-seq) and spatial transcriptome sequencing (stRNA-seq) technologies to systematically analyze the dynamic changes in intestinal cellular composition, spatial distribution, and function during SAP-induced intestinal injury. Results: snRNA-seq identified 18 major ileal cell populations spanning epithelial, immune, stem/TA, and stromal compartments. SAP was associated with compositional remodeling characterized by downward trends in Lgr5 Conclusions: Integrated single-nucleus and spatial transcriptomics reveal that SAP is accompanied by spatially organized ileal remodeling, epithelial immune-interacting rewiring, and altered neighborhood architecture, together with an ECM-centered FN1 signaling axis and attenuated Hmga2/Myb-associated regulatory programs in stem compartments. These findings provide a spatially informed cellular framework and generate testable hypotheses for mechanisms underlying impaired epithelial regeneration during SAP-associated intestinal injury.

Indexed as

Cell CommunicationIntestinal MucosaPancreatitisAnimalsCell DifferentiationCell NucleusDisease Models, AnimalMaleRatsSingle-Cell Gene Expression AnalysisSpatial TranscriptomicsTranscriptomeacute pancreatitiscell communicationcellular heterogeneityintestinal injurysingle-nucleus transcriptomicsspatial transcriptomicsstem cell differentiation

Identifiers

PMID41694378
PMCPMC12901460

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.