Human iPSC‐derived microglia: A growing toolset to study the brain's innate immune cells

J Hasselmann, M Blurton‐Jones - Glia, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Recent advances in the generation of microglia from human induced pluripotent stem cells
(iPSCs) have provided exciting new approaches to examine and decipher the biology of …

Brain organoids and the study of neurodevelopment

CA Trujillo, AR Muotri - Trends in molecular medicine, 2018 - cell.com
Brain organoids are 3D self-assembled structures composed of hundreds of thousands to
millions of cells that resemble the cellular organization and transcriptional and epigenetic …

Three-dimensional bioprinted glioblastoma microenvironments model cellular dependencies and immune interactions

M Tang, Q Xie, RC Gimple, Z Zhong, T Tam, J Tian… - Cell research, 2020 - nature.com
Brain tumors are dynamic complex ecosystems with multiple cell types. To model the brain
tumor microenvironment in a reproducible and scalable system, we developed a rapid three …

[HTML][HTML] Zika virus targets glioblastoma stem cells through a SOX2-integrin αvβ5 axis

Z Zhu, P Mesci, JA Bernatchez, RC Gimple, X Wang… - Cell stem cell, 2020 - cell.com
Zika virus (ZIKV) causes microcephaly by killing neural precursor cells (NPCs) and other
brain cells. ZIKV also displays therapeutic oncolytic activity against glioblastoma (GBM) stem …

SARS-CoV-2 infects human brain organoids causing cell death and loss of synapses that can be rescued by treatment with Sofosbuvir

P Mesci, JS de Souza, L Martin-Sancho, A Macia… - PLoS …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
The Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is the causative
agent of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), which was rapidly declared a pandemic by …

Consequences of viral infection and cytokine production during pregnancy on brain development in offspring

D Elgueta, P Murgas, E Riquelme, G Yang… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Infections during pregnancy can seriously damage fetal neurodevelopment by aberrantly
activating the maternal immune system, directly impacting fetal neural cells. Increasing …

Human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived glial cells and neural progenitors display divergent responses to Zika and dengue infections

J Muffat, Y Li, A Omer, A Durbin… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
Maternal Zika virus (ZIKV) infection during pregnancy is recognized as the cause of an
epidemic of microcephaly and other neurological anomalies in human fetuses. It remains …

Genome-wide CRISPR screen for Zika virus resistance in human neural cells

Y Li, J Muffat, A Omer Javed, HR Keys… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
Zika virus (ZIKV) is a neurotropic and neurovirulent arbovirus that has severe detrimental
impact on the developing human fetal brain. To date, little is known about the factors …

Sofosbuvir protects human brain organoids against SARS-CoV-2

P Mesci, A Macia, A Saleh, L Martin-Sancho, X Yin… - BioRxiv, 2020 - biorxiv.org
COVID-19 was rapidly declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization, only three
months after the initial outbreak in Wuhan, China. Early clinical care mainly focused on …

Pathophysiology and mechanisms of Zika virus infection in the nervous system

KM Christian, H Song, G Ming - Annual review of neuroscience, 2019 - annualreviews.org
In 2015, public awareness of Zika virus (ZIKV) rose in response to alarming statistics of
infants with microcephaly being born to women who were infected with the virus during …