单细胞测序技术在肝再生中的应用
Application of single cell sequencing technology in liver regeneration
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摘要: 肝脏具有强大的再生能力,当发生毒性损伤或手术切除后,肝细胞可快速进入细胞周期,迅速恢复受损肝脏体积和功能。肝再生涉及多种复杂过程,依赖多种细胞间相互作用。由于传统测序方法受限于组织内平均细胞变化水平,只能获得反映优势细胞亚群的平均遗传信息,而次级细胞亚群的作用常被忽略,导致细胞异质性信息丢失。单细胞测序技术可以解析单个细胞亚群的生物学行为,更加深入了解肝再生过程中不同细胞分布状态、相互作用及细胞异质性。笔者针对单细胞测序技术在肝再生中的应用进行综述。Abstract: The liver is a highly proliferative organ. As the liver injured, the hepatocytes can quickly enter the cell cycle to restore the volume and function of liver. Liver regeneration involves complex processes that depend on the interaction of many different cell types. As limited by the average cell change level in tissues, traditional sequencing methods can only acquire the average genetic information reflecting dominant cell subpopulations, but ignore the secondary cell subpopu-lations, which leads to the loss of cellular heterogeneity information. Single‑cell sequencing tech-nology can analyze the biological behavior of single cell, which helps to better understand the distri-bution, interaction and cell heterogeneity of different cells during liver regeneration. The authors review the application of single cell sequencing technology in liver regeneration.