Integrated multi-omics, spatial profiling and organoid modeling drive transformative advances in chronic liver disease and hepatocellular carcinoma immunomicroenvironment research.

Chronic liver disease (CLD) represents a major global public health challenge, necessitating a systematic understanding of its complex immunopathological mechanisms. This review comprehensively summarizes the groundbreaking applications of cutting-edge technologies-including single-cell sequencing, spatial transcriptomics, and organoid models-in chronic liver disease immunology research: Single-cell sequencing resolves immune cell heterogeneity at unprecedented resolution, identifies rare cell subsets, and reveals dynamic changes and regulatory networks through multi-omics integration; Spatial transcriptomics complements this by mapping immune-stromal interactions within structural contexts such as the portal tract, fibrotic septa, and tumor niches, uncovering spatially organized immune evasion mechanisms and microenvironmental remodeling; Organoid technology constructs humanized liver-immune models that recapitulate disease-specific features-such as fibrosis, steatohepatitis, and hepatocellular carcinoma-enabling mechanistic validation, drug screening, and individualized therapeutic exploration. The synergistic integration of multi-omics profiling, spatial mapping, and organoid modeling is driving a paradigm shift in chronic liver disease immunology-transitioning from static cellular descriptions to spatiotemporal mechanism decoding, and from population-level insights to individualized pathophysiology and treatment prediction. These advanced approaches establish a technological foundation for building precision immunotherapeutic strategies tailored to spatiotemporal regulation of the liver immune microenvironment.
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Liu Liu, Wang Wang, Ye Ye, Zhang Zhang, Li Li, Wei Wei, Wang Wang, Zhang Zhang
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