Towards organoid culture without Matrigel

MT Kozlowski, CJ Crook, HT Ku - Communications biology, 2021 - nature.com
Organoids—cellular aggregates derived from stem or progenitor cells that recapitulate organ
function in miniature—are of growing interest in developmental biology and medicine …

Brain organoids for the study of human neurobiology at the interface of in vitro and in vivo

I Chiaradia, MA Lancaster - Nature Neuroscience, 2020 - nature.com
Brain development is an extraordinarily complex process achieved through the spatially and
temporally regulated release of key patterning factors. In vitro neurodevelopmental models …

Maturation and circuit integration of transplanted human cortical organoids

O Revah, F Gore, KW Kelley, J Andersen, N Sakai… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Self-organizing neural organoids represent a promising in vitro platform with which to model
human development and disease,,,–. However, organoids lack the connectivity that exists in …

Generation of functional human 3D cortico-motor assembloids

J Andersen, O Revah, Y Miura, N Thom, ND Amin… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
Neurons in the cerebral cortex connect through descending pathways to hindbrain and
spinal cord to activate muscle and generate movement. Although components of this …

Proper acquisition of cell class identity in organoids allows definition of fate specification programs of the human cerebral cortex

A Uzquiano, AJ Kedaigle, M Pigoni, B Paulsen… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Realizing the full utility of brain organoids to study human development requires
understanding whether organoids precisely replicate endogenous cellular and molecular …

Long-term maturation of human cortical organoids matches key early postnatal transitions

A Gordon, SJ Yoon, SS Tran, CD Makinson… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Human stem-cell-derived models provide the promise of accelerating our understanding of
brain disorders, but not knowing whether they possess the ability to mature beyond mid-to …

Generation of human striatal organoids and cortico-striatal assembloids from human pluripotent stem cells

Y Miura, MY Li, F Birey, K Ikeda, O Revah… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Cortico-striatal projections are critical components of forebrain circuitry that regulate
motivated behaviors. To enable the study of the human cortico-striatal pathway and how its …

[HTML][HTML] Lipid accumulation induced by APOE4 impairs microglial surveillance of neuronal-network activity

MB Victor, N Leary, X Luna, HS Meharena… - Cell Stem Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Summary Apolipoprotein E4 (APOE4) is the greatest known genetic risk factor for
developing sporadic Alzheimer's disease. How the interaction of APOE4 microglia with …

Human brain organogenesis: Toward a cellular understanding of development and disease

KW Kelley, SP Pașca - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
The construction of the human nervous system is a distinctly complex although highly
regulated process. Human tissue inaccessibility has impeded a molecular understanding of …

Assembloid CRISPR screens reveal impact of disease genes in human neurodevelopment

X Meng, D Yao, K Imaizumi, X Chen, KW Kelley, N Reis… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
The assembly of cortical circuits involves the generation and migration of interneurons from
the ventral to the dorsal forebrain,–, which has been challenging to study at inaccessible …