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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2020

Redefining the heterogeneity of peripheral nerve cells in health and autoimmunity.

Jolien Wolbert, Xiaolin Li, Michael Heming, Anne K Mausberg, Dagmar Akkermann, Clara Frydrychowicz, Robert Fledrich, Linda Groeneweg, Christian Schulz, Mark Stettner and 4 more

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 89 papers.

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89citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

89 citing papers in PubMed, 153 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

14 authors at 6 institutions in 1 country.

Jolien WolbertDepartment of Neurology with Institute of Translational Neurology, University Hospital Münster, Münster 48149, Germany.
Xiaolin LiDepartment of Neurology with Institute of Translational Neurology, University Hospital Münster, Münster 48149, Germany.
Michael HemingDepartment of Neurology with Institute of Translational Neurology, University Hospital Münster, Münster 48149, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-9568-2790
Anne K MausbergDepartment of Neurology, University Hospital Essen, University Duisburg Essen, Essen 45147, Germany.
Dagmar AkkermannDepartment of Neuropathology, University Hospital Leipzig, Leipzig 04103, Germany.
Clara FrydrychowiczDepartment of Neuropathology, University Hospital Leipzig, Leipzig 04103, Germany.
Robert FledrichInstitute of Anatomy, Leipzig University, Leipzig 04103, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-5323-7958
Linda GroenewegInstitute of Immunology, Westfälische Wilhelms University, Münster 48149, Germany.
Christian SchulzMedizinische Klinik und Poliklinik I, Klinikum der Universität München, Ludwig Maximilians Universität, München 81377, Germany.
Mark StettnerDepartment of Neurology, University Hospital Essen, University Duisburg Essen, Essen 45147, Germany.
Noelia Alonso GonzalezInstitute of Immunology, Westfälische Wilhelms University, Münster 48149, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-0533-5216
Heinz WiendlDepartment of Neurology with Institute of Translational Neurology, University Hospital Münster, Münster 48149, Germany.
Ruth StassartDepartment of Neuropathology, University Hospital Leipzig, Leipzig 04103, Germany.
Gerd Meyer Zu HörsteDepartment of Neurology with Institute of Translational Neurology, University Hospital Münster, Münster 48149, Germany; gerd.meyerzuhoerste@ukmuenster.de.
University Hospital Münster · DEUniversity Hospital Leipzig · DEUniversity of Duisburg-Essen · DEUniversity of Münster · DELeipzig University · DELMU Klinikum · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Peripheral nerves contain axons and their enwrapping glia cells named Schwann cells (SCs) that are either myelinating (mySCs) or nonmyelinating (nmSCs). Our understanding of other cells in the peripheral nervous system (PNS) remains limited. Here, we provide an unbiased single cell transcriptomic characterization of the nondiseased rodent PNS. We identified and independently confirmed markers of previously underappreciated nmSCs and nerve-associated fibroblasts. We also found and characterized two distinct populations of nerve-resident homeostatic myeloid cells that transcriptionally differed from central nervous system microglia. In a model of chronic autoimmune neuritis, homeostatic myeloid cells were outnumbered by infiltrating lymphocytes which modulated the local cell-cell interactome and induced a specific transcriptional response in glia cells. This response was partially shared between the peripheral and central nervous system glia, indicating common immunological features across different parts of the nervous system. Our study thus identifies subtypes and cell-type markers of PNS cells and a partially conserved autoimmunity module induced in glia cells.

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AnimalsAutoimmune DiseasesBiomarkersCell CommunicationCell LineageGene Expression RegulationHomeostasisHumansLeukocytesMacrophagesMiceNeuronsPeripheral NervesRatsBiomarkersperipheral nervous systemSchwann cellsingle cell RNA-seqtranscriptomics

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PMID32295886
PMCPMC7196786
OpenAlexW3016683308

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