Three Distinct Cell Types Express Extracellular Matrix Proteins In Different Niches During Skeletal Muscle Fibrosis
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AccessionGSE89633
TitleThree Distinct Cell Types Express Extracellular Matrix Proteins In Different Niches During Skeletal Muscle Fibrosis
DescriptionTissue extracellular matrix provides structural support and creates unique niches for resident cells . However, the identities of cells responsible for creating specific ECM niches have not been determined. In striated muscle, the identity of these cells becomes important in disease when ECM changes result in fibrosis and subsequent increased tissue stiffness and dysfunction. Here we describe a novel approach to isolate and identify cells that maintain ECM niches in both healthy and fibrotic muscle. Using a collagen I reporter mouse, we show that there are three distinct cell populations that express collagen I in both healthy and fibrotic skeletal muscle. Interestingly, the number of collagen I expressing cells in all three cell populations increase proportionally in fibrotic muscle indicating that all cell types participate in the fibrosis process. Furthermore, it is shown that the ECM gene expression profile is not qualitatively altered in fibrotic muscle. This suggests that muscle fibrosis in this model results from an increased number of collagen I expressing cells and not the initiation of a specific fibrotic gene expression program. Finally, in fibrotic muscle, we show that these collagen I expressing cell populations differentially express distinct ECM proteins fibroblasts express the fibrillar components of ECM, fibro/adipogenic progenitors cells differentially express basal laminar proteins and skeletal muscle progenitor cells differentially express genes important for the satellite cell niche.
Landing Pagehttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/query/acc.cgi?acc=GSE89633
RepositoryGene Expression Omnibus
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ARCHS4
Published September 2017
ARCHS4 provides access to gene counts from HiSeq 2000 and HiSeq 2500 platforms for human and mouse experiments from GEO ...
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Clustergrammer
Published October 2017
Web-based tool for visualizing and analyzing high-dimensional data as interactive and shareable heatmaps
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Interactive heatmap visualization of RNA-seq dataset GSE89633
Highly interactive web-based heatmap visualization of the top 500 most variable genes in t...
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