Amyloid β-based therapy for Alzheimer's disease: Challenges, successes and future

Y Zhang, H Chen, R Li, K Sterling… - Signal transduction and …, 2023 - nature.com
Amyloid β protein (Aβ) is the main component of neuritic plaques in Alzheimer's disease
(AD), and its accumulation has been considered as the molecular driver of Alzheimer's …

Engineering organoids

M Hofer, MP Lutolf - Nature Reviews Materials, 2021 - nature.com
Organoids are in vitro miniaturized and simplified model systems of organs that have gained
enormous interest for modelling tissue development and disease, and for personalized …

APOE4 exacerbates synapse loss and neurodegeneration in Alzheimer's disease patient iPSC-derived cerebral organoids

J Zhao, Y Fu, Y Yamazaki, Y Ren, MD Davis… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
APOE4 is the strongest genetic risk factor associated with late-onset Alzheimer's disease
(AD). To address the underlying mechanism, we develop cerebral organoid models using …

A brief history of organoids

C Corrò, L Novellasdemunt… - American Journal of …, 2020 - journals.physiology.org
In vitro cell cultures are crucial research tools for modeling human development and
diseases. Although the conventional monolayer cell cultures have been widely used in the …

Modeling Alzheimer's disease with iPSC-derived brain cells

J Penney, WT Ralvenius, LH Tsai - Molecular psychiatry, 2020 - nature.com
Alzheimer's disease is a devastating neurodegenerative disorder with no cure. Countless
promising therapeutics have shown efficacy in rodent Alzheimer's disease models yet failed …

APOE4 causes widespread molecular and cellular alterations associated with Alzheimer's disease phenotypes in human iPSC-derived brain cell types

YT Lin, J Seo, F Gao, HM Feldman, HL Wen, J Penney… - Neuron, 2018 - cell.com
Summary The apolipoprotein E4 (APOE4) variant is the single greatest genetic risk factor for
sporadic Alzheimer's disease (sAD). However, the cell-type-specific functions of APOE4 in …

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 …

The complexity of Alzheimer's disease: an evolving puzzle

C Ferrari, S Sorbi - Physiological reviews, 2021 - journals.physiology.org
The history of Alzheimer's disease (AD) started in 1907, but we needed to wait until the end
of the century to identify the components of pathological hallmarks and genetic subtypes and …

A human forebrain organoid model of fragile X syndrome exhibits altered neurogenesis and highlights new treatment strategies

Y Kang, Y Zhou, Y Li, Y Han, J Xu, W Niu, Z Li… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Fragile X syndrome (FXS) is caused by the loss of fragile X mental retardation protein
(FMRP), an RNA-binding protein that can regulate the translation of specific mRNAs. In this …

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 …