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. 2021 Oct 8;142(6):923–936. doi: 10.1007/s00401-021-02370-8

Fig. 5.

Fig. 5

Novel high-throughput technologies expand the diagnostic spectrum of research on microglia. Several emerging cutting-edge methods for studying the microglial phenotype are depicted in a graphical manner. The pictograms demonstrate a gene expression heatmap (Bulk RNA sequencing), a droplet-based analysis of single cells with subsequent t-SNE visualization (Single-cell RNA sequencing), the chromatin landscape using ATAC-seq (epigenetic changes and chromatin accessibility), an objective slide incubating with metal-coupled antibodies with subsequent single-cell analysis (CyTOF-based Imaging Mass Cytometry), barcoded antibodies in combination with droplet-based microfluidics system (combined transcriptomics and proteomics) and a tissue section analyzed by in-situ-sequencing as well as two microglia cells with different intracellular symbols representing different genes (transcriptomics with spatial resolution)