Journal: Scientific Reports
Article Title: Intense impact of IL-1β expressing inflammatory macrophages in acute aortic dissection
doi: 10.1038/s41598-024-65931-3
Figure Lengend Snippet: Monocytes and inflammatory macrophages expressing IL-1β are accumulated in ascending aorta in patients with Stanford type A aortic dissection (AAD). ( A ) Sub-clustering of myeloid cells by uniform manifold approximation and projection (UMAP) in Controls and AADs (n = 3 Controls from LiY et al ; n = 2 AAD). ( B ) Dot plots displaying signature cell gene expression markers for each subcluster of myeloid cells. ( C ) Featured plots displaying characteristic gene expression of IL1B, NLRP3, and CCL2 in myeloid cells. ( D ) Pie charts showing the proportion of each myeloid cell cluster in the Control and AAD groups. Percentage of partitioned monocytes and monocyte-derived macrophages (clusters 0, 1, 2, and 3). ( E ) Gene ontology (GO) terms showing enriched biological processes (BP) (left) and molecular functions (MF) of clusters 0, 1, 2, 3, and 4. ( F ) Trajectory pseudo-time analysis in Monocle3 with Seurat cluster annotations (left) and change in the expression of IL-1β across pseudo-time for monocytes and monocyte-derived macrophage partitions (clusters 0, 1, 2, and 3) in AAD samples (right). ( G ) Histological staining with EVG, CD68 and, IL-1β. The scale bar represents 100 μm. Macs macrophages, Monos monocytes, cDC conventional dendritic cells, pDCs plasmacytoid dendritic cells.
Article Snippet: A blocking antibody against IL-1β (BE0246, BioXCell Therapeutics, New Haven, CT, USA) or an isotype control antibody (BE0091, BioXCell) were injected intraperitoneally at a dose of 200 μg every 3 days for 2 weeks (Fig. ).
Techniques: Expressing, Dissection, Gene Expression, Control, Derivative Assay, Staining