Connecting the dots: melanoma cell of origin, tumor cell plasticity, trans‐differentiation, and drug resistance

E Castro‐Pérez, M Singh, S Sadangi… - Pigment Cell & …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Melanoma, a lethal malignancy that arises from melanocytes, exhibits a multiplicity of clinico‐
pathologically distinct subtypes in sun‐exposed and non‐sun‐exposed areas. Melanocytes …

Retinal organoids in disease modelling and drug discovery: Opportunities and challenges

K Chakrabarty, D Nayak, J Debnath, D Das… - Survey of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Diseases leading to retinal cell loss can cause severe visual impairment and blindness. The
lack of effective therapies to address retinal cell loss and the absence of intrinsic …

Differential chondrogenic differentiation between iPSC derived from healthy and OA cartilage is associated with changes in epigenetic regulation and metabolic …

NM Khan, ME Diaz-Hernandez, S Chihab… - Elife, 2023 - elifesciences.org
Induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) are potential cell sources for regenerative medicine.
The iPSCs exhibit a preference for lineage differentiation to the donor cell type indicating the …

Organoid assessment technologies

Y Gu, W Zhang, X Wu, Y Zhang, K Xu… - Clinical and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Despite enormous advances in the generation of organoids, robust and stable protocols of
organoids are still a major challenge to researchers. Research for assessing structures of …

[HTML][HTML] Integration of Transcriptome and MicroRNA Profile Analysis of iMSCs Defines Their Rejuvenated State and Conveys Them into a Novel Resource for Cell …

V Konteles, I Papathanasiou, M Tzetis, E Goussetis… - Cells, 2023 - mdpi.com
Although MSCs grant pronounced potential for cell therapies, several factors, such as their
heterogeneity restrict their use. To overcome these limitations, iMSCs (MSCs derived from …

Human retinal organoids in therapeutic discovery: a review of applications

L Cheng, MH Kuehn - Human iPSC-derived Disease Models for Drug …, 2023 - Springer
Human embryonic stem cells (hESCs)-and induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs)-derived
retinal organoids (ROs) are three-dimensional laminar structures that recapitulate the …

[HTML][HTML] A treatment within sight: challenges in the development of stem cell-derived photoreceptor therapies for retinal degenerative diseases

D Beaver, IJ Limnios - Frontiers in Transplantation, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Stem cell therapies can potentially treat various retinal degenerative diseases, including age-
related macular degeneration (AMD) and inherited retinal diseases like retinitis pigmentosa …

Unravelling Stargardt disease (STGD1): modelling genotype-phenotype correlations and unresolved genetic variants in iPSC-derived retinal organoids

AM Watson - 2023 - theses.ncl.ac.uk
Stargardt disease (STGD1) is an inherited retinopathy affecting approximately 1: 8000
individuals. It is characterised by biallelic mutations in ABCA4 and encodes a vital protein for …