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What is a cell type and how to define it?

Hongkui Zeng
- 01 Jul 2022 - 
- Vol. 185, Iss: 15, pp 2739-2755
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An overview of the basic principles of cell types rooted in evolution and development and approaches to characterize and classify cell types and investigate how they contribute to the organism's function, using the mammalian brain as a primary example as mentioned in this paper .
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This article is published in Cell.The article was published on 2022-07-01. It has received 73 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Medicine & Biology.

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A high-resolution transcriptomic and spatial atlas of cell types in the whole mouse brain

TL;DR: The cell type atlas for the whole adult mouse brain was created based on the combination of two singlecell-level, whole-brain-scale datasets: a single-cell RNA-sequencing (scRNA-seq) dataset of ∼7 million cells profiled, and a spatially resolved transcriptomic dataset with ∼4.3 million cells using MERFISH as discussed by the authors .
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Molecular and anatomical characterization of parabrachial neurons and their axonal projections

- 01 Nov 2022 - 
TL;DR: In this paper , a repository of data on the molecular identity, spatial location, and projection patterns of dozens of parabrachial nucleus neuron subclusters is provided. But it is unclear how many PBN neuron populations exist and how different behaviors may be encoded by unique signaling molecules or receptors.
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The cell type composition of the adult mouse brain revealed by single cell and spatial genomics

TL;DR: In this article , the authors constructed a comprehensive atlas of cell types in each brain structure, paired high-throughput single-nucleus RNA-seq with Slide-seq-a recently developed spatial transcriptomics method with near-cellular resolution.
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The structure of the nervous system of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans

TL;DR: The structure and connectivity of the nervous system of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans has been deduced from reconstructions of electron micrographs of serial sections as discussed by the authors.
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The embryonic cell lineage of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans.

TL;DR: It is concluded that the cell lineage itself, complex as it is, plays an important role in determining cell fate and is demonstrated to demonstrate substantial cell autonomy in at least some sections of embryogenesis.
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Interneurons of the neocortical inhibitory system.

TL;DR: This review focuses on the organizing principles that govern the diversity of inhibitory interneurons and their circuits.
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Cell types in the mouse cortex and hippocampus revealed by single-cell RNA-seq

TL;DR: Large-scale single-cell RNA sequencing is used to classify cells in the mouse somatosensory cortex and hippocampal CA1 region and found 47 molecularly distinct subclasses, comprising all known major cell types in the cortex.
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