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Journal Article
Encompassing view of spatial and single-cell RNA sequencing renews the role of the microvasculature in human atherosclerosis
2025
Overview
Atherosclerosis is a pervasive contributor to ischemic heart disease and stroke. Despite the advance of lipid-lowering therapies and anti-hypertensive agents, the residual risk of an atherosclerotic event remains high, and developing therapeutic strategies has proven challenging. This is due to the complexity of atherosclerosis with a spatial interplay of multiple cell types within the vascular wall. In this study, we generated an integrative high-resolution map of human atherosclerotic plaques combining single-cell RNA sequencing from multiple studies and spatial transcriptomics data from 12 human specimens with different stages of atherosclerosis. Here we show cell-type-specific and atherosclerosis-specific expression changes and spatially constrained alterations in cell–cell communication. We highlight the possible recruitment of lymphocytes via ACKR1 endothelial cells of the vasa vasorum, the migration of vascular smooth muscle cells toward the lumen by transforming into fibromyocytes and cell–cell communication in the plaque region, indicating an intricate cellular interplay within the adventitia and the subendothelial space in human atherosclerosis.
Bleckwehl et al. present a spatial transcriptomic map of atherosclerotic plaques across disease stages, revealing cellular recruitment and migration patterns and intercellular communication dynamics as a valuable resource for future research.
Publisher
Nature Publishing Group UK,Nature Publishing Group
Subject
/ 45/91
/ 82/1
/ Atherosclerosis - metabolism
/ Biomedical and Life Sciences
/ Cells
/ Datasets
/ Endothelial Cells - metabolism
/ Endothelial Cells - pathology
/ Female
/ Gene Expression Profiling - methods
/ Humans
/ Ligands
/ Male
/ Muscle, Smooth, Vascular - metabolism
/ Muscle, Smooth, Vascular - pathology
/ Myocytes, Smooth Muscle - metabolism
/ Myocytes, Smooth Muscle - pathology
/ RNA-Seq
