Ying Lei, Xian Liang, Yunong Sun, Ting Yao, Hongyu Gong, Zhenhua Chen, Yuanqing Gao, Hui Wang, Ru Wang, Yunqi Huang, Tao Yang, Miao Yu, Longqi Liu, Chun-Xia Yi, Qing-Feng Wu, Xingxing Kong, Xun Xu, Shiping Liu, Zhi Zhang, Tiemin Liu
The hypothalamus plays a crucial role in the progression of obesity and diabetes; however, its structural complexity and cellular heterogeneity impede targeted treatments. Here, we profiled the single-cell and spatial transcriptome of the hypothalamus in obese and sporadic type 2 diabetic macaques, revealing primate-specific distributions of clusters and genes as well as spatial region, cell-type-, and gene-feature-specific changes. The infundibular (INF) and paraventricular nuclei (PVN) are most susceptible to metabolic disruption, with the PVN being more sensitive to diabetes...
February 6, 2024: Cell Metabolism