View from the heart: cardiac fibroblasts in development, scarring and regeneration

MB Furtado, HT Nim, SE Boyd… - Development, 2016 - journals.biologists.com
In the adult, tissue repair after injury is generally compromised by fibrosis, which maintains
tissue integrity with scar formation but does not restore normal architecture and function. The …

[HTML][HTML] From whole-mount to single-cell spatial assessment of gene expression in 3D

LN Waylen, HT Nim, LG Martelotto… - Communications …, 2020 - nature.com
Unravelling spatio-temporal patterns of gene expression is crucial to understanding core
biological principles from embryogenesis to disease. Here we review emerging …

Enduring epigenetic landmarks define the cancer microenvironment

R Pidsley, MG Lawrence, E Zotenko… - Genome …, 2018 - genome.cshlp.org
The growth and progression of solid tumors involves dynamic cross-talk between cancer
epithelium and the surrounding microenvironment. To date, molecular profiling has largely …

Adaptation to reef habitats through selection on the coral animal and its associated microbiome

MJH van Oppen, P Bongaerts, P Frade… - Molecular …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Spatially adjacent habitats on coral reefs can represent highly distinct environments, often
harbouring different coral communities. Yet, certain coral species thrive across divergent …

Lupus low disease activity state as a treatment endpoint for systemic lupus erythematosus: a prospective validation study

V Golder, R Kandane-Rathnayake, M Huq… - The Lancet …, 2019 - thelancet.com
Background Treat-to-target strategies have improved outcomes in single-organ diseases
with simple clinical or laboratory endpoints. A lack of validated endpoints has prevented …

[PDF][PDF] Muscle stem cells undergo extensive clonal drift during tissue growth via Meox1-mediated induction of G2 cell-cycle arrest

PD Nguyen, DB Gurevich, C Sonntag, L Hersey… - Cell Stem Cell, 2017 - cell.com
Organ growth requires a careful balance between stem cell self-renewal and lineage
commitment to ensure proper tissue expansion. The cellular and molecular mechanisms that …

Adult mouse fibroblasts retain organ-specific transcriptomic identity

E Forte, M Ramialison, HT Nim, M Mara, JY Li, R Cohn… - Elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
Organ fibroblasts are essential components of homeostatic and diseased tissues. They
participate in sculpting the extracellular matrix, sensing the microenvironment, and …

[PDF][PDF] Parallel use of human stem cell lung and heart models provide insights for SARS-CoV-2 treatment

R Rudraraju, MJ Gartner, JA Neil, ES Stout, J Chen… - Stem Cell Reports, 2023 - cell.com
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) primarily infects the
respiratory tract, but pulmonary and cardiac complications occur in severe coronavirus …

High disease activity status suggests more severe disease and damage accrual in systemic lupus erythematosus

R Koelmeyer, HT Nim, M Nikpour, YB Sun… - Lupus science & …, 2020 - lupus.bmj.com
Objective Disease severity in SLE is an important concept related to disease activity,
treatment burden and prognosis. We set out to evaluate if high disease activity status …

[HTML][HTML] MonaGO: a novel gene ontology enrichment analysis visualisation system

Z Xin, Y Cai, LT Dang, HMS Burke, J Revote… - BMC …, 2022 - Springer
Background Gene ontology (GO) enrichment analysis is frequently undertaken during
exploration of various-omics data sets. Despite the wide array of tools available to biologists …