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. 2021 Aug 11;11:16323. doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-94933-8

Figure 5.

Figure 5

Renewal of corneal epithelial cells: Limbal early progenitor cells, late progenitor cells, basal, and transiently amplifying cells. (a) Violin plots of LPC-1 marker gene expression. SCANPY 1.7.1 in Python was used to generate violin plots as indicted in “Materials and methods” (https://pypi.org/project/scanpy/). (b) Topmost enriched MSigDB Canonical Pathways of genes differentially expressed between LPC-1 and 2. These top pathways correspond to genes down-regulated in LPC-1. The number of overlap genes are indicated next to each bar. RNAscope of selected markers from (a) on human cornea of (c) early limbal progenitor cells (LPC-1) GPHA2 and FRZB, (d) early and late limbal progenitor cells (LPC-1 and 2) MMP10, and (e) mixed basal or transiently amplifying cells (Epi-B1,B2) CSK2 and WNT10A (scale bar: 50 uM).