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bioRxiv
date
Mar 7, 2026
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Published
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创新性整合单细胞测序与空间转录组学技术,揭示心脏再生过程中巨噬细胞状态由纤维母细胞-巨噬细胞微环境中的il34-csf1ra-egr1信号轴调控,发现该轴失衡会导致促纤维化反应,为心脏修复提供新靶点。
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单细胞测序
空间组学
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Post

📄 原文题目

Cardiac-immune microniches programme macrophage states in the regenerating heart

🔗 原文链接

💡 AI 核心解读

创新性整合单细胞测序与空间转录组学技术,揭示心脏再生过程中巨噬细胞状态由纤维母细胞-巨噬细胞微环境中的il34-csf1ra-egr1信号轴调控,发现该轴失衡会导致促纤维化反应,为心脏修复提供新靶点。

📝 英文原版摘要

Adult zebrafish regenerate their hearts after injury, a process that requires macrophages, yet how local tissue microenvironments instruct macrophage states and function remains unclear. Here we combine single cell RNA sequencing with Visium and high-resolution MERFISH spatial transcriptomics to map the cardio-immune landscape of homeostatic and regenerating zebrafish hearts. We identify a mpeg1.1 compartment comprising macrophages, dendritic, B and NK-like cells, and show that injury establishes a macrophage-centred immune environment with transcriptional programmes spanning resident surveillance, damage sensing, inflammation, antigen presentation, resolution and metabolic support. Communication-aware spatial modelling reveals that these states are not randomly distributed but organised into discrete structural-immune microniches across the injury region, each defined by stereotyped cellular compositions and ligand-receptor circuits. Within a fibroblast-macrophage microniche, we uncover an il34-csf1ra-egr1 axis in which col12a1a+ il34 fibroblasts promote an egr1 pro-regenerative macrophage state that couples fibrosis, vascular integrity and epicardial signalling. We show that disruption of this axis by csf1ra loss of function reduces macrophage-, endothelial- and epicardial-rich microniches, amplifying fibroblast-driven domains that shift macrophages towards stress and long-sustained inflammatory programmes, thereby biasing early injury response towards a pro-fibrotic state. Our work establishes spatially defined cardio-immune microniches as key organisers of macrophage function and regenerative outcome, providing a mechanistic framework and actionable targets for reprogramming cardiac repair.
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