Human iPSC-derived neural models for studying Alzheimer's disease: from neural stem cells to cerebral organoids

M Barak, V Fedorova, V Pospisilova, J Raska… - Stem Cell Reviews and …, 2022 - Springer
During the past two decades, induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) have been widely used
to study mechanisms of human neural development, disease modeling, and drug discovery …

Neural Stem Cells and Methods for Their Generation From Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells in vitro

AA Galiakberova, EB Dashinimaev - Frontiers in cell and …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Neural stem cells (NSCs) provide promising approaches for investigating embryonic
neurogenesis, modeling of the pathogenesis of diseases of the central nervous system, and …

Automated high-speed 3D imaging of organoid cultures with multi-scale phenotypic quantification

A Beghin, G Grenci, G Sahni, S Guo, H Rajendiran… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Current imaging approaches limit the ability to perform multi-scale characterization of three-
dimensional (3D) organotypic cultures (organoids) in large numbers. Here, we present an …

Morphogenesis and development of human telencephalic organoids in the absence and presence of exogenous extracellular matrix

C Martins‐Costa, VA Pham, J Sidhaye… - The EMBO …, 2023 - embopress.org
The establishment and maintenance of apical‐basal polarity is a fundamental step in brain
development, instructing the organization of neural progenitor cells (NPCs) and the …

Cerebral organoids derived from patients with Alzheimer's disease with PSEN1/2 mutations have defective tissue patterning and altered development

T Vanova, J Sedmik, J Raska, KA Cerna, P Taus… - Cell Reports, 2023 - cell.com
During the past two decades, induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) have been widely used
to study human neural development and disease. Especially in the field of Alzheimer's …

Engineered tissues and strategies to overcome challenges in drug development

AS Khalil, R Jaenisch, DJ Mooney - Advanced drug delivery reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
Current preclinical studies in drug development utilize high-throughput in vitro screens to
identify drug leads, followed by both in vitro and in vivo models to predict lead candidates' …

Spinal neural tube formation and tail development in human embryos

C Santos, AR Marshall, A Murray, K Metcalfe… - eLife, 2024 - elifesciences.org
Primary and secondary neurulation–processes that form the spinal cord–are incompletely
understood in humans, largely due to the challenge of accessing neurulation-stage embryos …

Collective behavior and self-organization in neural rosette morphogenesis

M Miotto, M Rosito, M Paoluzzi, V de Turris… - Frontiers in Cell and …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Neural rosettes develop from the self-organization of differentiating human pluripotent stem
cells. This process mimics the emergence of the embryonic central nervous system …

Human iPSC-derived cerebral organoids model features of Leigh syndrome and reveal abnormal corticogenesis

AI Romero-Morales, GL Robertson, A Rastogi… - …, 2022 - journals.biologists.com
Leigh syndrome (LS) is a rare, inherited neurometabolic disorder that presents with bilateral
brain lesions caused by defects in the mitochondrial respiratory chain and associated …

Domino-like effect of C112R mutation on ApoE4 aggregation and its reduction by Alzheimer's Disease drug candidate

M Nemergut, SM Marques, L Uhrik, T Vanova… - Molecular …, 2023 - Springer
Abstract Background Apolipoprotein E (ApoE) ε4 genotype is the most prevalent risk factor
for late-onset Alzheimer's Disease (AD). Although ApoE4 differs from its non-pathological …