The human lung cell atlas: A high-resolution reference map of the human lung in health and disease

American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2019, Pages 31-41

  Schiller, Herbert B ^a   Montoro, Daniel T ^b,c   Simon, Lukas M ^a   Rawlins, Emma L ^d   Meyer, Kerstin B ^e   Strunz, Maximilian ^a   Vieira Braga, Felipe A ^e   Timens, Wim ^f   Koppelman, Gerard H ^f,g   Budinger, G R Scott ^h   Burgess, Janette K ^f   Waghray, Avinash ^b,c   Van Den Berge, Maarten ^f   Theis, Fabian J ^a,i   Regev, Aviv ^j,k   Kaminski, Naftali ^l   Rajagopal, Jayaraj ^b,c   Teichmann, Sarah A ^e   Misharin, Alexander V ^h   Nawijn, Martijn C ^f  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b HARVARD STEM CELL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^e WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^g UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^h NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^j BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD   (United States)

^k MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^l YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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Author keywords

Human Cell Atlas; Single cell RNA sequencing; Spatial transcriptomics; Systems biology

Indexed keywords

ANATOMICAL VARIATION; CELLS BY BODY ANATOMY; HEALTHY AGING; HUMAN; LUNG ALVEOLUS CELL; LUNG DEVELOPMENT; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG PARENCHYMA; REVIEW; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; GENETICS; LUNG; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY;

TRANSCRIPTOME;

HUMANS; LUNG; LUNG DISEASES; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 85068373543     PISSN: 10441549     EISSN: 15354989     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1165/rcmb.2018-0416TR     Document Type: Review

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