Single-cell transcriptomics captures features of human midbrain development and dopamine neuron diversity in brain organoids

A Fiorenzano, E Sozzi, M Birtele, J Kajtez… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Three-dimensional brain organoids have emerged as a valuable model system for studies of
human brain development and pathology. Here we establish a midbrain organoid culture …

Dopamine neuron diversity: Recent advances and current challenges in human stem cell models and single cell sequencing

A Fiorenzano, E Sozzi, M Parmar, P Storm - Cells, 2021 - mdpi.com
Human midbrain dopamine (DA) neurons are a heterogeneous group of cells that share a
common neurotransmitter phenotype and are in close anatomical proximity but display …

Silk scaffolding drives self-assembly of functional and mature human brain organoids

E Sozzi, J Kajtez, A Bruzelius, MF Wesseler… - Frontiers in cell and …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) are intrinsically able to self-organize into cerebral
organoids that mimic features of developing human brain tissue. These three-dimensional …

Generation of human ventral midbrain organoids derived from pluripotent stem cells

E Sozzi, F Nilsson, J Kajtez, M Parmar… - Current …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Parkinson's disease (PD) is the second most common neurodegenerative disorder
worldwide and is caused by the degeneration and loss of dopamine (DA) neurons in the …

Advancements in Single-Cell RNA Sequencing Research for Neurological Diseases

B Yang, S Hu, Y Jiang, L Xu, S Shu, H Zhang - Molecular Neurobiology, 2024 - Springer
Neurological diseases are a major cause of the global burden of disease. Although the
mechanisms of the occurrence and development of neurological diseases are not fully clear …

Lineage tracing of stem cell–derived dopamine grafts in a Parkinson's model reveals shared origin of all graft-derived cells

P Storm, Y Zhang, F Nilsson, A Fiorenzano… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
Stem cell therapies for Parkinson's disease are at an exciting time of development, and
several clinical trials have recently been initiated. Human pluripotent stem cells are …

Single-cell transcriptomics reveals the cell fate transitions of human dopaminergic progenitors derived from hESCs

L Liang, Y Tian, L Feng, C Wang, G Feng… - Stem Cell Research & …, 2022 - Springer
Background Midbrain dopaminergic (DA) progenitors derived from human pluripotent stem
cells are considered to be a promising treatment for Parkinson's disease (PD). However, the …

Long non-coding RNA (LncRNA) CASC9/microRNA (miR)-590–3p/sine oculis homeobox 1 (SIX1)/NF-κB axis promotes proliferation and migration in breast cancer

J Chang, Y Zhang, X Ye, H Guo, K Lu, Q Liu… - …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Long non-coding RNA (lncRNA)–microRNA–mRNA signaling axes have recently been
shown to have a key role in the development of breast cancer (BC). In this study, we …

Exploiting spatiotemporal regulation of FZD5 during neural patterning for efficient ventral midbrain specification

A Yang, R Chidiac, E Russo, H Steenland… - …, 2024 - journals.biologists.com
The Wnt/β-catenin signaling governs anterior-posterior neural patterning during
development. Current human pluripotent stem cell (hPSC) differentiation protocols use a …

单细胞转录组测序技术在帕金森病中的应用

刘子瑜, 耿丹丹, 张润姣, 刘清, 李一博, 王宏方… - 中国组织工程研究, 2025 - cjter.com
单细胞转录组测序技术在帕金森病中的应用 Page 1 Chinese Journal of Tissue Engineering
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