Human vascularized macrophage-islet organoids to model immune-mediated pancreatic β cell pyroptosis upon viral infection
Yang L, Han Y, Zhang T, Dong X, Ge J, Roy A, Zhu J, Lu T, Vandana J, de Silva N, Robertson C, Xiang J, Pan C, Sun Y, Que J, Evans T, Liu C, Wang W, Naji A, Parker S, Schwartz R, Chen S. Human vascularized macrophage-islet organoids to model immune-mediated pancreatic β cell pyroptosis upon viral infection. Cell Stem Cell 2024, 31: 1612-1629.e8. PMID: 39232561, PMCID: PMC11546835, DOI: 10.1016/j.stem.2024.08.007.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchProinflammatory macrophagesActivation of proinflammatory macrophagesImmune cell changesCoxsackievirus B4Host damageAccumulation of proinflammatory macrophagesSingle-cell RNA sequencingMulti-omics platformsB cellsSevere acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2Acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2Respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2Marker expressionViral infectionViral exposureSyndrome coronavirus 2Endothelial cellsCell changesRNA sequencingSARS-CoV-2MacrophagesCell damageAutopsy samplesOrganoidsPyroptosis