Unbiased classification of sensory neuron types by large-scale single-cell RNA sequencing

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 145-153

  Usoskin, Dmitry ^a   Furlan, Alessandro ^a   Islam, Saiful ^a   Abdo, Hind ^a   Lönnerberg, Peter ^a   Lou, Daohua ^a   Hjerling Leffler, Jens ^a   Haeggström, Jesper ^a   Kharchenko, Olga ^a   Kharchenko, Peter V ^b,c   Linnarsson, Sten ^a   Ernfors, Patrik ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b Harvard Medical School Center for Biomedical Informatics   (United States)

^c BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; CELLS BY BODY ANATOMY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMATITIS; GENE EXPRESSION; HEAT SENSITIVITY; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; MECHANORECEPTOR; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; RNA SEQUENCE; SENSATION; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS; SINGLE CELL RNA SEQUENCING; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; C57BL MOUSE; CELL SIZE; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; INFLAMMATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CELL SIZE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; INFLAMMATION; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PRURITUS; SENSORY RECEPTOR CELLS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA;

EID: 84921466417     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: 15461726     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn.3881     Document Type: Article

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