Human organoids in basic research and clinical applications

XY Tang, S Wu, D Wang, C Chu, Y Hong… - Signal transduction and …, 2022 - nature.com
Organoids are three-dimensional (3D) miniature structures cultured in vitro produced from
either human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) or adult stem cells (AdSCs) derived from …

Advances in pluripotent stem cells: history, mechanisms, technologies, and applications

G Liu, BT David, M Trawczynski, RG Fessler - Stem cell reviews and …, 2020 - Springer
Over the past 20 years, and particularly in the last decade, significant developmental
milestones have driven basic, translational, and clinical advances in the field of stem cell …

Aerobic glycolysis is the predominant means of glucose metabolism in neuronal somata, which protects against oxidative damage

Y Wei, QQ Miao, Q Zhang, S Mao, M Li, X Xu… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
It is generally thought that under basal conditions, neurons produce ATP mainly through
mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS), and glycolytic activity only …

Historical perspective: models of Parkinson's disease

SJ Chia, EK Tan, YX Chao - International journal of molecular sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
Parkinson's disease (PD) is the most common movement disorder with motor and nonmotor
signs. The current therapeutic regimen for PD is mainly symptomatic as the etio …

Impaired dopamine release in Parkinson's disease

KML Cramb, D Beccano-Kelly, SJ Cragg… - Brain, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Parkinson's disease is the second most common neurodegenerative disease and yet the
early pathophysiological events of the condition and sequences of dysfunction remain …

Induced pluripotent stem cell technology: a decade of progress

Y Shi, H Inoue, JC Wu, S Yamanaka - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2017 - nature.com
Since the advent of induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) technology a decade ago,
enormous progress has been made in stem cell biology and regenerative medicine. Human …

Human iPS cell-derived dopaminergic neurons function in a primate Parkinson's disease model

T Kikuchi, A Morizane, D Doi, H Magotani, H Onoe… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS cells) are a promising source for a cell-based therapy to
treat Parkinson's disease (PD), in which midbrain dopaminergic neurons progressively …

Patient-specific iPSC-derived astrocytes contribute to non-cell-autonomous neurodegeneration in Parkinson's disease

A di Domenico, G Carola, C Calatayud… - Stem cell reports, 2019 - cell.com
Parkinson's disease (PD) is associated with the degeneration of ventral midbrain
dopaminergic neurons (vmDAns) and the accumulation of toxic α-synuclein. A non-cell …

Induced pluripotent stem cells and their use in human models of disease and development

P Karagiannis, K Takahashi, M Saito… - Physiological …, 2019 - journals.physiology.org
The discovery of somatic cell nuclear transfer proved that somatic cells can carry the same
genetic code as the zygote, and that activating parts of this code are sufficient to reprogram …

In vitro Models of Neurodegenerative Diseases

A Slanzi, G Iannoto, B Rossi, E Zenaro… - Frontiers in cell and …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Neurodegenerative diseases are progressive degenerative conditions characterized by the
functional deterioration and ultimate loss of neurons. These incurable and debilitating …