2019年10月10日,英國女王醫學研究所N. C.Henderson和P. Ramachandran研究組在Nature上發表了題為Resolving the fibrotic niche of human livercirrhosis at single-cell leve長文,對超過100,000個人類肝臟單細胞進行轉錄組研究,在單細胞水平以及分子水平對肝硬化的病理原因進行解析,為肝硬化治療靶點所需的病理方面、分子機制以及細胞層面提供了重要理論依據。
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