The potential use of plant natural products and plant extracts with antioxidant properties for the prevention/treatment of neurodegenerative diseases: in vitro, in vivo …

F Pohl, P Kong Thoo Lin - Molecules, 2018 - mdpi.com
Neurodegenerative disorders, including Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and
Huntington's disease, present a major health issue and financial burden for health care …

Integrating biosensors in organs-on-chip devices: A perspective on current strategies to monitor microphysiological systems

E Ferrari, C Palma, S Vesentini, P Occhetta, M Rasponi - Biosensors, 2020 - mdpi.com
Organs-on-chip (OoC), often referred to as microphysiological systems (MPS), are advanced
in vitro tools able to replicate essential functions of human organs. Owing to their …

Hypoxia-enhanced Blood-Brain Barrier Chip recapitulates human barrier function and shuttling of drugs and antibodies

TE Park, N Mustafaoglu, A Herland… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
The high selectivity of the human blood-brain barrier (BBB) restricts delivery of many
pharmaceuticals and therapeutic antibodies to the central nervous system. Here, we …

Stereolithographic hydrogel printing of 3D culture chips with biofunctionalized complex 3D perfusion networks

R Zhang, NB Larsen - Lab on a Chip, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Three-dimensional (3D) in vitro models capturing both the structural and dynamic complexity
of the in vivo situation are in great demand as an alternative to animal models. Despite …

The emergence of 3D bioprinting in organ-on-chip systems

K Fetah, P Tebon, MJ Goudie… - Progress in …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Understanding complex cell–cell interactions and physiological microenvironments is critical
for the development of new therapies for treating human diseases. Current animal models …

Regenerating the injured spinal cord at the chronic phase by engineered iPSCs‐derived 3D neuronal networks

L Wertheim, R Edri, Y Goldshmit, T Kagan… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Cell therapy using induced pluripotent stem cell‐derived neurons is considered a promising
approach to regenerate the injured spinal cord (SC). However, the scar formed at the …

[HTML][HTML] Human neurospheroid arrays for in vitro studies of Alzheimer's disease

M Jorfi, C D'Avanzo, RE Tanzi, DY Kim, D Irimia - Scientific Reports, 2018 - nature.com
Neurospheroids are commonly used for in vitro disease modeling and drug screening.
However, the heterogeneity in size of the neurospheroids mixtures available through current …

Spontaneous glioblastoma spheroid infiltration of early-stage cerebral organoids models brain tumor invasion

B da Silva, RK Mathew, ES Polson… - … Life Sciences R&D, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Organoid methodology provides a platform for the ex vivo investigation of the cellular and
molecular mechanisms underlying brain development and disease. The high-grade brain …

[HTML][HTML] Three-dimensional-engineered bioprinted in vitro human neural stem cell self-assembling culture model constructs of Alzheimer's disease

Y Zhang, H Chen, X Long, T Xu - Bioactive Materials, 2022 - Elsevier
The pathogenic cascade of Alzheimer's disease (AD) characterized by amyloid-β protein
accumulation is still poorly understood, partially owing to the limitations of relevant models …

Modeling the Human Brain With ex vivo Slices and in vitro Organoids for Translational Neuroscience

GO Nogueira, PP Garcez, C Bardy… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Advances in translational neuroscience require experimental models recapitulating the
complexity of the human brain. In contrast to conventional 2D cell culture models and animal …