[HTML][HTML] Organ on a chip: a novel in vitro biomimetic strategy in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) modeling

B Arjmand, S Kokabi Hamidpour, Z Rabbani… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is a pernicious neurodegenerative disorder that is associated
with the progressive degeneration of motor neurons, the disruption of impulse transmission …

Neuromuscular junction‐on‐a‐chip: ALS disease modeling and read‐out development in microfluidic devices

R de Jongh, XM Spijkers… - Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a fatal and progressive neurodegenerative disease
affecting upper and lower motor neurons with no cure available. Clinical and animal studies …

Microphysiological 3D model of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) from human iPS-derived muscle cells and optogenetic motor neurons

T Osaki, SGM Uzel, RD Kamm - Science advances, 2018 - science.org
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a progressive neurodegenerative disease involving loss
of motor neurons (MNs) and muscle atrophy, still has no effective treatment, despite much …

[HTML][HTML] Modeling cell-autonomous motor neuron phenotypes in ALS using iPSCs

J Hawrot, S Imhof, BJ Wainger - Neurobiology of disease, 2020 - Elsevier
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is an aggressive and uniformly fatal degenerative
disease of the motor nervous system. In order to understand underlying disease …

[HTML][HTML] A 3D cell culture system for bioengineering human neuromuscular junctions to model ALS

B Massih, A Veh, M Schenke, S Mungwa… - Frontiers in cell and …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
The signals that coordinate and control movement in vertebrates are transmitted from
motoneurons (MNs) to their target muscle cells at neuromuscular junctions (NMJs). Human …

Patient-specific cells for modeling and decoding amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: advances and challenges

A Zhao, Y Pan, S Cai - Stem Cell Reviews and Reports, 2020 - Springer
Motor neuron loss or degeneration is the typical characteristic of amyotrophic lateral
sclerosis (ALS), which often leads to weakness, paralysis, or even death. The underlying …

[HTML][HTML] Where and why modeling amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

F Liguori, S Amadio, C Volonté - International Journal of Molecular …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Over the years, researchers have leveraged a host of different in vivo models in order to
dissect amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a neurodegenerative/neuroinflammatory …

Tissue‐engineered in vitro modeling of the impact of Schwann cells in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

A Louit, MJ Beaudet, F Gros‐Louis… - Biotechnology and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) is a devastating neurodegenerative disease
affecting upper and lower motor neurons (MNs). To investigate whether Schwann cells could …

A human‐based functional NMJ system for personalized ALS modeling and drug testing

X Guo, V Smith, M Jackson, M Tran… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Loss of the neuromuscular junction (NMJ) is an early and critical hallmark in all forms of
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Herein, a functional NMJ disease model is developed …

Modeling amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in pure human iPSc-derived motor neurons isolated by a novel FACS double selection technique

D Toli, D Buttigieg, S Blanchard, T Lemonnier… - Neurobiology of …, 2015 - Elsevier
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a severe and incurable neurodegenerative disease.
Human motor neurons generated from induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSc) offer new …