Single cell RNA sequencing of human liver reveals distinct intrahepatic macrophage populations

Nature Communications

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2018, Pages

  MacParland, Sonya A ^a,b   Liu, Jeff C ^b   Ma, Xue Zhong ^a   Innes, Brendan T ^b,c   Bartczak, Agata M ^a   Gage, Blair K ^d   Manuel, Justin ^a   Khuu, Nicholas ^d   Echeverri, Juan ^a   Linares, Ivan ^a   Gupta, Rahul ^a   Cheng, Michael L ^b   Liu, Lewis Y ^b   Camat, Damra ^a   Chung, Sai W ^b   Seliga, Rebecca K ^a   Shao, Zigong ^a   Lee, Elizabeth ^a   Ogawa, Shinichiro ^d   Ogawa, Mina ^d   Wilson, Michael D ^c,e   Fish, Jason E ^a,b   Selzner, Markus ^a   Ghanekar, Anand ^a   Grant, David ^a   Greig, Paul ^a   Sapisochin, Gonzalo ^a   Selzner, Nazia ^a   Winegarden, Neil ^d   Adeyi, Oyedele ^a,b,d   Keller, Gordon ^b,d,f   Bader, Gary D ^b,c   McGilvray, Ian D ^a   more..

^a UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^e HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^f PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL COMPONENT; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; RNA;

ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CELL POPULATION; CHOLANGIOCYTE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FRACTIONATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HEPATIC STELLATE CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LANDSCAPE; LIVER TISSUE; MACROPHAGE; MICROENVIRONMENT; MONOCYTE; RNA SEQUENCE; T LYMPHOCYTE; CYTOLOGY; LIVER; LIVER CELL; METABOLISM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

B-LYMPHOCYTES; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; HEPATIC STELLATE CELLS; HEPATOCYTES; HUMANS; LIVER; MACROPHAGES; MONOCYTES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA;

EID: 85055156175     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-06318-7     Document Type: Article

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