A molecular atlas of cell types and zonation in the brain vasculature - PubMed (original) (raw)

. 2018 Feb 22;554(7693):475-480.

doi: 10.1038/nature25739. Epub 2018 Feb 14.

Liqun He 3, Maarja Andaloussi Mäe 2, Johanna Andrae 2, Koji Ando 2, Francesca Del Gaudio 4, Khayrun Nahar 2, Thibaud Lebouvier 2 5, Bàrbara Laviña 2, Leonor Gouveia 2, Ying Sun 6, Elisabeth Raschperger 1, Markus Räsänen 7, Yvette Zarb 8, Naoki Mochizuki 9 10, Annika Keller 8, Urban Lendahl 4, Christer Betsholtz 1 2

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A molecular atlas of cell types and zonation in the brain vasculature

Michael Vanlandewijck et al. Nature. 2018.

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Cerebrovascular disease is the third most common cause of death in developed countries, but our understanding of the cells that compose the cerebral vasculature is limited. Here, using vascular single-cell transcriptomics, we provide molecular definitions for the principal types of blood vascular and vessel-associated cells in the adult mouse brain. We uncover the transcriptional basis of the gradual phenotypic change (zonation) along the arteriovenous axis and reveal unexpected cell type differences: a seamless continuum for endothelial cells versus a punctuated continuum for mural cells. We also provide insight into pericyte organotypicity and define a population of perivascular fibroblast-like cells that are present on all vessel types except capillaries. Our work illustrates the power of single-cell transcriptomics to decode the higher organizational principles of a tissue and may provide the initial chapter in a molecular encyclopaedia of the mammalian vasculature.

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