Project description:We investigated how Hippo-deficient cardiac fibroblasts (CFs) alter their cell state and interact with immune cells during cardiac fibrosis. To study the role of the Hippo pathway in CFs, we conditionally knocked out Lats1/2 specifically in the CFs of mouse hearts (Lats1/2CKO). To test the role of Hippo-deficient CF-induced macrophages, we treated the control and Lats1/2CKO mice with or without CSF1R inhibitor to block macrophage expansion and performed ST.
Project description:We investigated how Hippo deficient CFs alter their cell state and interact with immune cells during cardiac fibrosis. To study the role of the Hippo pathway in CFs, we conditionally knocked out Lats1/2 specifically in the CFs of mouse hearts (Lats1/2-CF) and performed single-nucleus RNA sequencing (snRNA-seq) and single-nucleus multiomics to profile the cellular landscape of the right atria, with and without Csf1r inhibitor
