Organoid and assembloid technologies for investigating cellular crosstalk in human brain development and disease

RM Marton, SP Pașca - Trends in Cell Biology, 2020 - cell.com
The biology of the human brain, and in particular the dynamic interactions between the
numerous cell types and regions of the central nervous system, has been difficult to study …

Brain organoids: advances, applications and challenges

X Qian, H Song, G Ming - Development, 2019 - journals.biologists.com
Brain organoids are self-assembled three-dimensional aggregates generated from
pluripotent stem cells with cell types and cytoarchitectures that resemble the embryonic …

Brain organoid: a 3D technology for investigating cellular composition and interactions in human neurological development and disease models in vitro

OS Agboola, X Hu, Z Shan, Y Wu, L Lei - Stem Cell Research & Therapy, 2021 - Springer
The study of human brain physiology, including cellular interactions in normal and disease
conditions, has been a challenge due to its complexity and unavailability. Induced …

Brain organoids: an ensemble of bioassays to investigate human neurodevelopment and disease

J Sidhaye, JA Knoblich - Cell Death & Differentiation, 2021 - nature.com
Understanding etiology of human neurological and psychiatric diseases is challenging.
Genomic changes, protracted development, and histological features unique to human brain …

Human cerebral organoids—a new tool for clinical neurology research

OL Eichmüller, JA Knoblich - Nature Reviews Neurology, 2022 - nature.com
The current understanding of neurological diseases is derived mostly from direct analysis of
patients and from animal models of disease. However, most patient studies do not capture …

Brain organoids as a model system for human neurodevelopment and disease

H Setia, AR Muotri - Seminars in cell & developmental biology, 2019 - Elsevier
The ability to reproduce early stages of human neurodevelopment in the laboratory is one of
the most exciting fields in modern neuroscience. The inaccessibility of the healthy human …

Challenges of organoid research

MG Andrews, AR Kriegstein - Annual review of neuroscience, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Organoids are 3D cell culture systems derived from human pluripotent stem cells that
contain tissue resident cell types and reflect features of early tissue organization. Neural …

The use of brain organoids to investigate neural development and disease

E Di Lullo, AR Kriegstein - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2017 - nature.com
Understanding the development and dysfunction of the human brain is a major goal of
neurobiology. Much of our current understanding of human brain development has been …

Human brain organogenesis: Toward a cellular understanding of development and disease

KW Kelley, SP Pașca - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
The construction of the human nervous system is a distinctly complex although highly
regulated process. Human tissue inaccessibility has impeded a molecular understanding of …

3D brain organoids: studying brain development and disease outside the embryo

S Velasco, B Paulsen, P Arlotta - Annual review of neuroscience, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Scientists have been fascinated by the human brain for centuries, yet knowledge of the
cellular and molecular events that build the human brain during embryogenesis and of how …