Single cell RNA sequencing of human embryonic forebrain after slice culturing for between four weeks and one month

With the aim of verifying normal tissue development in our Organotypic Timelapse recording with Transcriptomic Readout (OTTR) live tissue imaging method, we performed single cell RNA sequencing in organotypic slice cultures containing labelled cells from virally delivered ubiquitous Enhanced yellow fluorescent protein (EYFP)-expression. Human fetal cortices of PCW 7.5-10.5 were cut into strips along the dorso-ventral axis and directly placed en face, ventricular side down, on PTFE culturing membranes. To assess tissue health with our culturing method, we performed single cell RNA-seq analysis of the cortical explants (using adjacent slices from the same samples subjected to timelapse imaging). We cultured these control slices for four days in vitro (mimicking the start of a live imaging experiment after lentiviral infection and expression of EYFP), 11 days in vitro (corresponding to the end of one week of live imaging), and for two weeks and one month in vitro.

Type: Transcriptome Analysis
Archiver: European Genome-Phenome Archive (EGA)

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Dataset ID	Description	Technology	Samples
EGAD50000001690	7 samples from slice cultures kept for 4-29 days from forebrain of the developing human embryo at ages between post conceptional week 7.5 and 10.5 were dissociated and single cells were collected and processed without bias for mRNA-seq using the 10Xgenomics chromium 3' protocol version 3. Libraries were sequenced on Illumina NovaSeq 6000 and reads aligned against the human GRCh38 genome.	Illumina NovaSeq 6000	7