类有机物
诱导多能干细胞
生物
神经科学
视网膜
视网膜
细胞生物学
干细胞
外胚层
神经干细胞
解剖
胚胎干细胞
胚胎
遗传学
胚胎发生
基因
生物化学
作者
Milan Fernando,Scott D. Lee,Jesse R. Wark,Di Xiao,Benjamin Y. Lim,Michelle O’Hara-Wright,Hani J. Kim,Grady C. Smith,Ted Wong,Erdahl Teber,Robin R. Ali,Pengyi Yang,Mark E. Graham,Anai Gonzalez-Cordero
标识
DOI:10.1016/j.stemcr.2022.04.003
摘要
Summary
Advances in the study of neurological conditions have been possible because of pluripotent stem cell technologies and organoids. Studies have described the generation of neural ectoderm-derived retinal and brain structures from pluripotent stem cells. However, the field is still troubled by technical challenges, including high culture costs and variability. Here, we describe a simple and economical protocol that reproducibly gives rise to the neural retina and cortical brain regions from confluent cultures of stem cells. The spontaneously generated cortical organoids are transcriptionally comparable with organoids generated by other methods. Furthermore, these organoids showed spontaneous functional network activity and proteomic analysis confirmed organoids maturity. The generation of retinal and brain organoids in close proximity enabled their mutual isolation. Suspension culture of this complex organoid system demonstrated the formation of nerve-like structures connecting retinal and brain organoids, which might facilitate the investigation of neurological diseases of the eye and brain.
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