Title
A road map for happiness: The psychological factors related cell types in various parts of human body from single cell RNA-seq data analysis
Abstract
Massive evidence from all sources including zoology, neurobiology and immunology has confirmed that psychological factors can raise remarkable physiological effects. Researchers have long been aware of the potential value of these effects and wanted to harness them in the development of new drugs and therapies, for which the mechanism study is a necessary prerequisite. However, most of these studies are restricted to neuroscience, or starts with blood sample and fall into the area of immunity. In this study, we choose to focus on the psychological factor of happiness, mining existing publicly available single cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) data for the expression of happiness-related genes collected from various sources of literature in all types of cells in the samples, finding that the expression of these genes is not restricted within neuro-regulated cells or tissue-resident immune cells, on the opposite, cell types that are unique to tissue and organ without direct regulation from nervous system account for the majority to express the happiness-related genes. Our research is a preliminary exploration of where our body respond to our mind at cell level, and lays the foundation for more detailed mechanism research.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1016/j.compbiomed.2022.105286
COMPUTERS IN BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Single cell RNA-Seq data analysis, Psychological factors, Happiness-related genes, Physiological effect, Cell type
Journal
143
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0010-4825
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ziwei Wang100.34
Ying Zhang2110.21
Qun Li300.34
quan zou455867.61
Qing Liu502.03