Journal: Stem Cell Research & Therapy
Article Title: Single-cell transcriptomics reveals notch regulation in quiescent LEPR⁺ endometrial mesenchymal stem cells
doi: 10.1186/s13287-025-04803-7
Figure Lengend Snippet: The role and expression of Notch-related ligands and receptors in different endometrial stromal subsets. A Heatmap representation of the number of potential ligand-receptor pairs among different cell types of human endometrial cells. B The cell–cell interaction network was established by CellPhoneDB. C Ligand-receptor pairs of different cell types determined with CellPhoneDB are displayed with bubble plots. D The gene expression pattern of NOTCH-related molecules in stromal (yellow), eMSC (green), LEPR − eMSC (blue), LEPR + eMSC (red) from a primary human endometrial single-cell sequencing dataset (n = 10). E Quantification of HES1, NOTCH1, NOTCH2, and NOTCH4 in freshly isolated human endometrial stromal subsets (n = 8). Representative immunofluorescent images showing the co-localization (white arrows) of CD146 (green), CD140b (yellow), LEPR (pink), DLL1(orange) and JAG1(red) in blood vessels in the endometrial stroma. S, stroma; BV, blood vessels (Scale bar: 20 µm). The results are presented as the mean ± SD, * P < 0.05, ** P < 0.01, *** P < 0.001
Article Snippet: After reaching 80% confluence in culture, endometrial stromal cells were incubated with Phycoerythrin (PE)-conjugated anti-CD140b antibody (R&D Systems, USA, #FAB1263P) at 4 °C for 45 min, and then with anti-mouse IgG1 magnetic microbeads (Miltenyi Biotech, #130–047-102) at 4 °C for 15 min.
Techniques: Expressing, Gene Expression, Sequencing, Isolation