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Transcriptomic profiling of endometrial and dermal mesenchymal stromal cells before and after treatment with menstrual fluid

GSE298658 Homo sapiens (human) Single-cell RNA-seq 12 samples Submitted 2025/06/05 Platform GPL18460
At a glance

Single-cell RNA-seq · human · 12 samples

What it is
Single-cell RNA-seqGene activity measured in thousands of individual cells, so cell types can be told apart. Read from the summary: GEO's own type field only says 'expression profiling by sequencing', so confirm it in the paper.
Organism
Homo sapiens (human)
Samples
12 samples: 3 × eMSC, baseline, vs 3 × eMSC, menstrual fluid, vs 3 × dMSC, baseline, vs 3 × dMSC, menstrual fluid,Groups are read from the sample names, not from the paper. Check the list below.
Data you can get
A processed table (series matrix) and supplementary files from NCBI; the raw sequencing reads from ENA. Which of these hold counts depends on the study, so check the file list.
Summary (written by the submitters)
Introduction: Human endometrium is one of the unique organs, capable of scarless regeneration after injury during menstrual cycle. However, it is disputable whether this feature should be attributed to specific regulatory molecules present in the wound environment (menstrual fluid) or to the tissue-specific properties of endometrial mesenchymal stromal cells (eMSC), which are the main participants of wound healing.
Read the full summary ↓
We aim to elucidate the role of eMSC tissue-specificity in wound healing. Methods: We compared eMSC and dMSC transcriptomic profiles in response to MF with those of stromal cells from scar-forming organs - dermal MSC. Results: We have found that menstrual fluid induces a profound inflammatory response in both eMSC and dMSC, but a tissue-specific component was present in the transcriptomic changes. Furthermore, transcriptomic tissue-specificity is present as after MF treatment as before it, and was validated by in vivo single-cell RNA-sequencing data from Human Protein Atlas. This tissue-specificity is related to embryonic development and morphogenesis, suggesting the role of “developmental imprinting” in its establishment. Finally, we refined transcription factors from stably tissue-specific genes that may explain the unique properties of eMSC and endometrium itself and may serve as the potential targets to induce regeneration in scar-forming organs. Conclusion: eMSC possess tissue-specific properties, including stable expression of transcription factors that may explain the scarless regeneration of endometrium.
This dataset
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Direct links to NCBI and ENA, no account and no request form. Pick by what you want to do: take the small processed table to look, the supplementary files to re-analyse, or the original raw data to start over.

1 · Just have a look

Processed table

The series matrix: one table of values per sample as the submitters processed it. The smallest download, and it opens in Excel or R. Start here to see what the data look like.

2 · Re-analyse it

Supplementary files

The count tables and other files the authors uploaded. Take only the samples you need, or the whole study as GSE298658_RAW.tar (it can run to tens of gigabytes).

3 · Start from the raw reads

Raw sequencing reads

The original FASTQ files, straight from the sequencer, held at ENA. Large, and you align them yourself, so only choose this if you need to re-process the study from scratch.

What the files usually look like: Single-cell studies usually ship their counts as 10x files (matrix.mtx, barcodes.tsv, features.tsv), an .h5 file, or an .rds / .h5ad object that Seurat or Scanpy can open. Look for those among the supplementary files.

Also filed as BioProject PRJNA1270829 and SRA study SRP589202. Searching any of these in the dataset finder brings you back here.

Study design
3 × eMSC, baseline, vs 3 × eMSC, menstrual fluid, vs 3 × dMSC, baseline, vs 3 × dMSC, menstrual fluid,

Supports a between-group comparison across 12 samples.

How we read this: 4 replicated groups read from 12 sample titles; they account for 12 of them. These groups are guessed from the sample names, not taken from the paper, so check them against the sample list below before relying on them.

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