Project description:This study aimed to investigate the systemic immunological effects of kimchi consumption in humans. We conducted a 12-week randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial involving thirteen overweight but otherwise healthy adults who consumed either placebo, spontaneously fermented kimchi (S-K), or starter kimchi fermented with Leuconostoc mesenteroides KCKM0828 (LMS-K). Peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) were collected before and after the intervention and subjected to single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) to profile immune responses at single-cell resolution.
Project description:This study generated 10x Genomics Visium spatial transcriptomic profiles from mouse liver sections to investigate the effects of high-fat diet and kimchi supplementation on hepatic gene expression organization. Samples were obtained from male C57BL/6J mice assigned to normal diet (ND), high-fat diet (HFD), high-fat diet supplemented with spontaneously fermented kimchi (S-K), and high-fat diet supplemented with starter kimchi fermented with Leuconostoc mesenteroides KCKM0828 (LMS-K). The dataset was designed to assess diet-associated transcriptional changes across the liver lobule and to evaluate how kimchi intervention modulates zonation-related hepatic programs along the portal-to-central axis. Raw FASTQ files were prepared for SRA submission through GEO, and processed outputs include filtered gene-barcode matrices, HDF5 matrices, spatial coordinate files, scale factor files, tissue images, and summary reports.
