Single-Cell RNA-Seq Reveals Hypothalamic Cell Diversity

Cell Reports

Volumn 18, Issue 13, 2017, Pages 3227-3241

  Chen, Renchao ^a   Wu, Xiaoji ^a   Jiang, Lan ^a   Zhang, Yi ^a,b,c  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c HARVARD STEM CELL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

cell heterogeneity; hypothalamus; neuron diversity; oligodendrocyte; single cell RNA seq; tanycyte

Indexed keywords

NEUROPEPTIDE; RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CELL COMPOSITION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLS BY BODY ANATOMY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HOMEOSTASIS; HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; OLIGODENDROGLIA; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RNA SEQUENCE; SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS; TANYCYTE; YOUNG ADULT; AGING; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; CYTOLOGY; FOOD DEPRIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; MACROGLIA; METABOLISM; PROCEDURES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

AGING; ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; EPENDYMOGLIAL CELLS; FEMALE; FOOD DEPRIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEURONS; NEUROPEPTIDES; OLIGODENDROGLIA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SINGLE-CELL ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 85016318044     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22111247     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2017.03.004     Document Type: Article

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