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Transcriptome Analysis of Single Cells
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2011
In this article we describe a simple method for the harvesting of single cells from rat primary neuronal cultures and subsequent transcriptome analysis using aRNA amplification. This approach is generalizable to any cell type.
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Isolation and Transcriptome Analysis of Plant Cell Types
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2023
The feasibility and effectiveness of high-throughput scRNA-seq methods herald a single-cell era in plant research. Presented here is a robust and complete procedure for isolating specific Arabidopsis thaliana root cell types and subsequent transcriptome library construction and analysis.
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Single-cell Transcriptomic Analyses of Mouse Pancreatic Endocrine Cells
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2018
We describe a method for the isolation of endocrine cells from embryonic, neonatal and postnatal pancreases followed by single-cell RNA sequencing. This method allows analyses of pancreatic endocrine lineage development, cell heterogeneity and transcriptomic dynamics.
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Generation and Downstream Analysis of Single-Cell and Single-Nuclei Transcriptomes in Brain Organoids
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2024
Here, we introduce a comprehensive protocol for the generation and downstream analysis of human brain organoids using single-cell and single-nucleus RNA sequencing.
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An Approach to Study Shape-Dependent Transcriptomics at a Single Cell Level
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2020
This paper presents methods for growing cardiac myocytes with different shapes, which represent different pathologies, and sorting these adherent cardiac myocytes based on their morphology at a single cell level. The proposed platform provides a novel approach to high throughput and drug screening for different types of heart failure.
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The central advantage is resolution at the level of individual cells. A tissue-wide measurement can blend transcripts from many cell populations, whereas separate profiles preserve differences among cell states. This makes it possible to distinguish uncommon populations from abundant neighbors and to examine how cellular responses vary within the same biological sample.
Converting cellular RNA into complementary DNA creates the material that sequencing can read for transcript quantification. The resulting measurements are associated with individual captured cells, allowing expression profiles to be compared rather than merged into one tissue-wide signal. This linkage preserves cell-level variation for downstream analysis.
Computational grouping compares gene-expression profiles and assigns cells to sets with similar transcriptional patterns. These groups can represent distinct cell types or states, while relationships among profiles can help reconstruct developmental trajectories. Interpretation therefore depends not only on sequencing, but also on organizing the resulting measurements into biologically meaningful patterns.
A typical workflow begins with isolating or capturing individual cells. RNA from those cells is converted into complementary DNA, and sequencing generates transcript measurements. Computational analysis then groups cells according to their expression profiles. Separating these stages helps researchers relate experimental handling to the biological patterns identified afterward.
Comparisons across disease, environmental conditions, or treatment can reveal which cell populations change and which transcriptional programs accompany those changes. Because measurements remain linked to individual cells, the analysis can identify responses associated with particular cell types or states. This makes the method useful for studying biological responses under contrasting conditions.
In developmental biology, arranging cells by expression relationships can help reconstruct trajectories between cell states. This perspective goes beyond listing endpoint populations by connecting transcriptional programs with developmental progression and tissue organization. It can therefore support questions about how cellular diversity emerges as a biological system changes.