Spatial landscapes of the fed, fasted and refed livers from C57BL/6J mice - spatial transcriptomics

Spatial heterogeneity and plasticity of the mammalian liver is critical for systemic metabolic homeostasis in response to fluctuating nutritional status. Here, we generated a high-resolution transcriptomic landscape of the livers from mice that were either fed chow (fed), fasted for 18 h (fasted), or fasted for 18 h and then refed for 6 h (refed) using spatial transcriptomics (ST) and quantified changes in gene expression. This work provides a critical foundation for future mechanistic studies of liver metabolic heterogeneity and plasticity, and will help to understand the zonated pathology during liver disease progression. The livers from C57BL/6J mice that were either fed chow (fed), fasted for 16 h (fasted), or fasted for 16 h and then refed for 6 h (refed) were subject to 10x Visium spatial transcriptomics.