Human disease models in drug development

A Loewa, JJ Feng, S Hedtrich - Nature reviews bioengineering, 2023 - nature.com
Biomedical research is undergoing a paradigm shift towards approaches centred on human
disease models owing to the notoriously high failure rates of the current drug development …

[HTML][HTML] Fabrication of active targeting lipid nanoparticles: Challenges and perspectives

I Menon, M Zaroudi, Y Zhang, E Aisenbrey… - Materials Today Advances, 2022 - Elsevier
Targeted drug and gene delivery is the key for precision therapy. Lipid nanoparticles as non-
viral vectors have attracted extensive attentions in treating a variety of diseases, such as …

[HTML][HTML] Advanced human developmental toxicity and teratogenicity assessment using human organoid models

M Li, J Gong, L Gao, T Zou, J Kang, H Xu - … and Environmental Safety, 2022 - Elsevier
Tremendous progress has been made in the field of toxicology leading to the advance of
developmental toxicity assessment. Conventional animal models and in vitro two …

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 …

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 …

Pushing the boundaries of brain organoids to study Alzheimer's disease

J Cerneckis, G Bu, Y Shi - Trends in molecular medicine, 2023 - cell.com
Progression of Alzheimer's disease (AD) entails deterioration or aberrant function of multiple
brain cell types, eventually leading to neurodegeneration and cognitive decline. Defining …

[HTML][HTML] ApoE Cascade Hypothesis in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias

YA Martens, N Zhao, CC Liu, T Kanekiyo, AJ Yang… - Neuron, 2022 - cell.com
The ε4 allele of the apolipoprotein E gene (APOE4) is a strong genetic risk factor for
Alzheimer's disease (AD) and several other neurodegenerative conditions, including Lewy …

Brain organoids are new tool for drug screening of neurological diseases

JQ Zhou, LH Zeng, CT Li, DH He… - Neural Regeneration …, 2023 - journals.lww.com
At the level of in vitro drug screening, the development of a phenotypic analysis system with
high-content screening at the core provides a strong platform to support high-throughput …

Toward the next generation of vascularized human neural organoids

M Li, L Gao, L Zhao, T Zou, H Xu - Medicinal research reviews, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Thanks to progress in the development of three‐dimensional (3D) culture technologies,
human central nervous system (CNS) development and diseases have been gradually …

Functional genomics and the future of iPSCs in disease modeling

IR Brooks, CM Garrone, C Kerins, CS Kiar, S Syntaka… - Stem cell reports, 2022 - cell.com
Induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) are valuable in disease modeling because of their
potential to expand and differentiate into virtually any cell type and recapitulate key aspects …