Aleix Rius Rigau, Yi-Nan Li, Alexandru-Emil Matei, Andrea-Hermina Györfi, Peter-Martin Bruch, Sarah Koziel, Veda Devakumar, Armando Gabrielli, Alexander Kreuter, Jiucun Wang, Sascha Dietrich, Georg Schett, Jörg H W Distler, Minrui Liang
BACKGROUND: Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is a connective tissue disease that can serve as a model to study vascular changes in response to inflammation, autoimmunity, and fibrotic remodeling. Although microvascular changes are the earliest histopathologic manifestation of SSc, the vascular pathophysiology remains poorly understood. OBJECTIVE: We applied spatial proteomic approaches to deconvolute the heterogeneity of vascular cells at the single-cell level in situ and characterize cellular alterations of the vascular niches of patients with SSc...
March 5, 2024: Circulation Research