Palash Sashittal

2 months ago | cell.com | Rocio Vicario |Stamatina Fragkogianni |Maria Pokrovskii |Carina Meyer |Estibaliz Lopez-Rodrigo |Yang Hu | +31 more

Keywords Neurodegeneration MAPK pathway microglia hippocampus brainstem resident macrophages Introduction Langerhans cell histiocytosis (LCH)1 and Erdheim-Chester disease (ECD)2,3 are rare clonal myeloid disorders, with an estimated incidence of ∼5 cases per million people per year.4 They are sometimes co-diagnosed in the same patients,5 and both associated with a high prevalence of the BRAFV600E mutation1,2,3,6,7,8 as well as an increased risk of neurodegenerative disease...

Sep 13, 2024 | biorxiv.org | Palash Sashittal |Richard Zhang |Benjamin Law |Alexander J. Strzalkowski

AbstractDuring development, mulitpotent cells differentiate through a hierarchy of increasingly restricted progenitor cell types until they realize specialized cell types. A cell differentiation map describes this hierarchy, and inferring these maps is an active area of research spanning traditional single marker lineage studies to data-driven trajectory inference methods on single-cell RNA-seq data.