Modeling Alzheimer's disease with human induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells

AE Mungenast, S Siegert, LH Tsai - Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience, 2016 - Elsevier
In the last decade, induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells have revolutionized the utility of
human in vitro models of neurological disease. The iPS-derived and differentiated cells …

Exosomes as a potential novel therapeutic tools against neurodegenerative diseases

A Jarmalavičiūtė, A Pivoriūnas - Pharmacological research, 2016 - Elsevier
Exosomes are extracellular vesicles that can transfer biological information over long
distances affecting normal and pathological processes throughout organism. It is known that …

[HTML][HTML] MSC-derived exosomes promote recovery from traumatic brain injury via microglia/macrophages in rat

Y Chen, J Li, B Ma, N Li, S Wang, Z Sun, C Xue… - Aging (Albany …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in young individuals
worldwide. There is currently no effective clinical treatment for TBI, but mesenchymal stem …

Disrupted neuronal maturation in Angelman syndrome-derived induced pluripotent stem cells

JJ Fink, TM Robinson, ND Germain, CL Sirois… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Angelman syndrome (AS) is a neurogenetic disorder caused by deletion of the maternally
inherited UBE3A allele and is characterized by developmental delay, intellectual disability …

Clinical trials in a dish: a perspective on the coming revolution in drug development

B Fermini, ST Coyne, KP Coyne - … : Advancing Life Sciences …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
The pharmaceutical industry is facing unprecedented challenges as the cost of developing
new drugs has reached unsustainable levels, fueled in large parts by a high attrition rate in …

Functional Properties of Human Stem Cell‐Derived Neurons in Health and Disease

JP Weick - Stem cells international, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Stem cell‐derived neurons from various source materials present unique model systems to
examine the fundamental properties of central nervous system (CNS) development as well …

Modeling human brain circuitry using pluripotent stem cell platforms

AM Hartlaub, CA McElroy, NL Maitre… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Neural circuits are the underlying functional units of the human brain that govern complex
behavior and higher-order cognitive processes. Disruptions in neural circuit development …

Uncovering true cellular phenotypes: using induced pluripotent stem cell-derived neurons to study early insults in neurodevelopmental disorders

JJ Fink, ES Levine - Frontiers in Neurology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Animal models of neurodevelopmental disorders have provided invaluable insights into the
molecular-, cellular-, and circuit-level defects associated with a plethora of genetic …

Neural layer self-assembly in geometrically confined rat and human 3D cultures

MF Hasan, S Ghiasvand, H Wang, JM Miwa… - …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Neurological disorders affect millions of Americans and this number is expected to rise with
the aging population. Development of drugs to treat these disorders may be facilitated by …

The effect of rho kinase inhibition on morphological and electrophysiological maturity in iPSC-derived neurons

LJ Harbom, TL Rudisill, N Michel, KA Litwa… - Cell and tissue …, 2019 - Springer
Induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC)-derived neurons permit the study of neurogenesis and
neurological disease in a human setting. However, the electrophysiological properties of …