Patricia Piñol-Jurado, José Verdú-Díaz, Esther Fernández-Simón, Cristina Domínguez-González, Aurelio Hernández-Lain, Conor Lawless, Amy Vincent, Alejandro González-Chamorro, Elisa Villalobos, Alexandra Monceau, Zoe Laidler, Priyanka Mehra, James Clark, Andrew Filby, David McDonald, Paul Rushton, Andrew Bowey, Jorge Alonso Pérez, Giorgio Tasca, Chiara Marini-Bettolo, Michela Guglieri, Volker Straub, Xavier Suárez-Calvet, Jordi Díaz-Manera
Becker muscular dystrophy (BMD) is characterised by fiber loss and expansion of fibrotic and adipose tissue. Several cells interact locally in what is known as the degenerative niche. We analysed muscle biopsies of controls and BMD patients at early, moderate and advanced stages of progression using Hyperion imaging mass cytometry (IMC) by labelling single sections with 17 markers identifying different components of the muscle. We developed a software for analysing IMC images and studied changes in the muscle composition and spatial correlations between markers across disease progression...
February 9, 2024: Scientific Reports