Blood vessel organoids for development and disease

K Salewskij, JM Penninger - Circulation Research, 2023 - Am Heart Assoc
Despite enormous advances, cardiovascular disorders are still a major threat to global
health and are responsible for one-third of deaths worldwide. Research for new therapeutics …

In ovo model in cancer research and tumor immunology

L Miebach, J Berner, S Bekeschus - Frontiers in Immunology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Considering cancer not only as malignant cells on their own but as a complex disease in
which tumor cells interact and communicate with their microenvironment has motivated the …

Schizophrenia endothelial cells exhibit higher permeability and altered angiogenesis patterns in patient-derived organoids

I Stankovic, M Notaras, P Wolujewicz, T Lu… - Translational …, 2024 - nature.com
Schizophrenia (SCZ) is a complex neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by the
manifestation of psychiatric symptoms in early adulthood. While many research avenues into …

Considerations for modelling diffuse high-grade gliomas and developing clinically relevant therapies

SL Higginbottom, E Tomaskovic-Crook… - Cancer and Metastasis …, 2023 - Springer
Diffuse high-grade gliomas contain some of the most dangerous human cancers that lack
curative treatment options. The recent molecular stratification of gliomas by the World Health …

Visualization of vascular perfusion of human pancreatic cancer tissue in the CAM model and its impact on future personalized drug testing

A Ettner-Sitter, A Montagner, J Kuenzel, K Brackmann… - Organoids, 2024 - mdpi.com
Although significant improvements have been made in the treatment of pancreatic cancer, its
prognosis remains poor with an overall 5-year survival rate of less than 10%. New …

Organoids in COVID-19: can we break the glass ceiling?

CW Chau, R Sugimura - Journal of Leukocyte Biology, 2024 - academic.oup.com
COVID-19 emerged in September 2020 as a disease caused by the virus SARS-CoV-2. The
disease presented as pneumonia at first but later was shown to cause multisystem infections …

Neuro-mesodermal assembloids recapitulate aspects of peripheral nervous system development in vitro

AF Rockel, N Wagner, P Spenger, S Ergün… - Stem Cell Reports, 2023 - cell.com
Here we describe a novel neuro-mesodermal assembloid model that recapitulates aspects
of peripheral nervous system (PNS) development such as neural crest cell (NCC) induction …

[HTML][HTML] Advances in the differentiation of pluripotent stem cells into vascular cells

YC Jiao, YX Wang, WZ Liu, JW Xu… - World Journal of Stem …, 2024 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Blood vessels constitute a closed pipe system distributed throughout the body, transporting
blood from the heart to other organs and delivering metabolic waste products back to the …

Bioengineering methods for vascularizing organoids

PN Nwokoye, OJ Abilez - Cell Reports Methods, 2024 - cell.com
Organoids, self-organizing three-dimensional (3D) structures derived from stem cells, offer
unique advantages for studying organ development, modeling diseases, and screening …

Blood vessels in a dish: the evolution, challenges, and potential of vascularized tissues and organoids

PN Nwokoye, OJ Abilez - Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Vascular pathologies are prevalent in a broad spectrum of diseases, necessitating a deeper
understanding of vascular biology, particularly in overcoming the oxygen and nutrient …