Journal: iScience
Article Title: Single-cell transcriptomics of neuroinflammation and cerebrovascular endothelial cells in the aged rat hippocampus
doi: 10.1016/j.isci.2025.113332
Figure Lengend Snippet: Single-cell transcriptome analysis of the cerebral vascular endothelial cells (A–C) UMAP plot and bar plot showing the distribution of 6 subpopulations of cerebral vascular endothelial cells in the LPS and NC groups. (D) Violin plot shows the gene expression related to vascular origin (arterial, venous, and capillary), including arterial endothelial cell marker genes Fbln5, Bmx, Efnb2 , Vegfc . The venous endothelial cells highly expressed gene Nr2f and capillary endothelial cells highly expressed gene Rgcc and Slc16a1 . (E) Expression profiles of EC0 Marker genes including Mfge8, Lrg1, Lgals9, Cldn5, Ocln, Tjp1, Ddit4/Redd1, Mfsd2a are shown using the UMAP visualization approach. (F) Marker genes in the EC0 subpopulation are enriched with GO functional analysis. (G) Volcano plot depicts the DEGs at overall level of cerebral vascular endothelial cells between LPS and NC groups. DEGs (|log2(fold change)| > 1, p Value FDR <0.05, Difference = |pct.1- pct.2 | > 0.2) were colored (red for upregulated DEGs and blue for downregulated DEGs. (H and I) GO analysis shows the upregulated signaling pathway at overall level of cerebral vascular endothelial cells and EC0 subpopulation respectively.
Article Snippet: Based on these results, we conducted single-cell transcriptome analysis (scRNA-seq) on aging rat hippocampus on day 3 after LPS or vehicle injection using the 10X Genomics platform to examine changes in the neuroinflammatory microenvironment ( H).
Techniques: Gene Expression, Marker, Expressing, Functional Assay