A human brain vascular atlas reveals diverse mediators of Alzheimer’s risk

2022/02/14 by Andrew C. Yang, Ryan T. Vest, Fabian Kern +25 · 1 voice · 28 citations
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Neuroscience · #Barrier Structure and Function Studies #Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms #Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics

paper · pdf · doi:10.1038/s41586-021-04369-3

openalex publication_date 2022/02/14 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/29

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• Hard to believe that these photos represent brain samples from 8 different healthy donors. #ImageForensics Published in Nature, 2022. Cited 449 times according to Dimensions. doi.org/10.1038/s415... [bsky, 100 points, 5 comments]