Journal: Arteriosclerosis, thrombosis, and vascular biology
Article Title: Chemokine (C-C motif) Ligand 2 Expressing Adventitial Fibroblast Expansion During Loeys-Dietz Syndrome Aortic Aneurysm Formation
doi: 10.1161/ATVBAHA.124.322069
Figure Lengend Snippet: A) Cd68 immunofluorescence staining of Tgfbr2 G357W/+ and WT aortic root. Red – Cd68, blue – Hoechst nuclear stain; green – elastin autofluorescence. Top : 10x magnification; scale bar: 100μm. Bottom : 20x magnification; scale bar: 50μm. B) UMAP projection of macrophages after reclustering into 3 clusters: MΦ1–3. C) Feature plots of cluster defining genes. MΦ1/Resident macrophages: F13a1, Lyve1, and Gas6 ; MΦ2/M1 macrophages: Cd74, H2-Aa, Cd40 ; MΦ3/M2 macrophages Arg1, Ccl24, Mrc1 . D) UMAP projection split by genotype identified similar resident clusters but substantially increased MΦ2 and MΦ3 clusters in Tgfbr2 G357W/+ . E) Bar plot by percentage and absolute cell count for each macrophage cluster by genotype. F) Feature plot of MΦ1/Resident ( F13a1 ), MΦ2/M1 ( Ccr2 ), and MΦ3/M2 ( Arg1 ) macrophage defining genes split by genotype. Very few MΦ2/M1 and MΦ3/M2 macrophages exist within the WT samples. UMAP - uniform manifold approximation and projection.
Article Snippet: Single cell suspensions were counted to ensure adequate cell density (>150 cells/μL) and immediately used for 10X Genomics single-cell capture.
Techniques: Immunofluorescence, Staining, Cell Characterization