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Abstract

Biology

Droplet Barcoding-Based Single Cell Transcriptomics of Adult Mammalian Tissues

Published: January 10th, 2019

DOI:

10.3791/58709

1Hotchkiss Brain Institute, University of Calgary, 2Department of Comparative Biology and Experimental Medicine, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Calgary, 3Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute, University of Calgary, 4Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary

* These authors contributed equally

Abstract

The analysis of single cell gene expression across thousands of individual cells within a tissue or microenvironment is a valuable tool for identifying cell composition, discrimination of functional states, and molecular pathways underlying observed tissue functions and animal behaviors. However, the isolation of intact, healthy single cells from adult mammalian tissues for subsequent downstream single cell molecular analysis can be challenging. This protocol describes the general processes and quality control checks necessary to obtain high-quality adult single cell preparations from the nervous system or skin that enabled subsequent unbiased single cell RNA sequencing and analysis. Guidelines for downstream bioinformatic analysis are also provided.

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Keywords Single Cell Transcriptomics

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