A cellular census of human lungs identifies novel cell states in health and in asthma

Nature Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2019, Pages 1153-1163

  Vieira Braga, Felipe A ^a,b   Kar, Gozde ^a,b   Berg, Marijn ^c   Carpaij, Orestes A ^c   Polanski, Krzysztof ^a   Simon, Lukas M ^d   Brouwer, Sharon ^c   Gomes, Tomás ^a   Hesse, Laura ^c   Jiang, Jian ^c   Fasouli, Eirini S ^a,b   Efremova, Mirjana ^a   Vento Tormo, Roser ^a   Talavera López, Carlos ^a   Jonker, Marnix R ^c   Affleck, Karen ^e   Palit, Subarna ^d,f,g   Strzelecka, Paulina M ^a,h,i   Firth, Helen V ^a   Mahbubani, Krishnaa T ^h   Cvejic, Ana ^a,h,i   Meyer, Kerstin B ^a   Saeb Parsy, Kourosh ^h   Luinge, Marjan ^c   Brandsma, Corry Anke ^c   Timens, Wim ^c   Angelidis, Ilias ^d   Strunz, Maximilian ^d   Koppelman, Gerard H ^c,j   van Oosterhout, Antoon J ^e   Schiller, Herbert B ^d   Theis, Fabian J ^d,f   van den Berge, Maarten ^c   Nawijn, Martijn C ^c   Teichmann, Sarah A ^a,b,k   more..

^a WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b OpenTargets   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^d INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^e GLAXOSMITHKLINE   (United Kingdom)

^f TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^g DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Research)   (Germany)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ University of Cambridge   (United Kingdom)

^j UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^k UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; TRANSCRIPTOME;

AIRWAY EPITHELIUM CELL; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL INTERACTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG PARENCHYMA; MEMORY T LYMPHOCYTE; MUCOUS CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TH2 CELL; ADULT; AGED; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CYTOLOGY; EPITHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GOBLET CELL; IMMUNOLOGY; LUNG; MALE; METABOLISM; METAPLASIA; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; AGED; ASTHMA; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CELL COMMUNICATION; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FEMALE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GOBLET CELLS; HUMANS; LUNG; MALE; METAPLASIA; MIDDLE AGED; TH2 CELLS; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 85067892275     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: 1546170X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41591-019-0468-5     Document Type: Article

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