Addressing variability in iPSC-derived models of human disease: guidelines to promote reproducibility

V Volpato, C Webber - Disease models & mechanisms, 2020 - journals.biologists.com
Induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) technologies have provided in vitro models of
inaccessible human cell types, yielding new insights into disease mechanisms especially for …

Pluripotent stem cells in disease modelling and drug discovery

Y Avior, I Sagi, N Benvenisty - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2016 - nature.com
Experimental modelling of human disorders enables the definition of the cellular and
molecular mechanisms underlying diseases and the development of therapies for treating …

The Parkinson's disease protein alpha-synuclein is a modulator of processing bodies and mRNA stability

E Hallacli, C Kayatekin, S Nazeen, XH Wang… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Alpha-synuclein (αS) is a conformationally plastic protein that reversibly binds to cellular
membranes. It aggregates and is genetically linked to Parkinson's disease (PD). Here, we …

Modeling gene× environment interactions in PTSD using human neurons reveals diagnosis-specific glucocorticoid-induced gene expression

C Seah, MS Breen, T Rusielewicz, HN Bader… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can develop following severe trauma, but the extent to
which genetic and environmental risk factors contribute to individual clinical outcomes is …

Stem cell-derived neurons reflect features of protein networks, neuropathology, and cognitive outcome of their aged human donors

VN Lagomarsino, RV Pearse, L Liu, YC Hsieh… - Neuron, 2021 - cell.com
We have generated a controlled and manipulable resource that captures genetic risk for
Alzheimer's disease: iPSC lines from 53 individuals coupled with RNA and proteomic …

A viral strategy for targeting and manipulating interneurons across vertebrate species

J Dimidschstein, Q Chen, R Tremblay, SL Rogers… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
A fundamental impediment to understanding the brain is the availability of inexpensive and
robust methods for targeting and manipulating specific neuronal populations. The need to …

[HTML][HTML] Directed differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells to microglia

P Douvaras, B Sun, M Wang, I Kruglikov, G Lallos… - Stem cell reports, 2017 - cell.com
Microglia, the immune cells of the brain, are crucial to proper development and maintenance
of the CNS, and their involvement in numerous neurological disorders is increasingly being …

[HTML][HTML] Stem cell therapy for Alzheimer's disease

XY Liu, LP Yang, L Zhao - World journal of stem cells, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease characterized by
memory loss and cognitive impairment. It is caused by synaptic failure and excessive …

Quality control guidelines for clinical-grade human induced pluripotent stem cell lines

S Sullivan, GN Stacey, C Akazawa… - Regenerative …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Use of clinical-grade human induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) lines as a starting material
for the generation of cellular therapeutics requires demonstration of comparability of lines …

[HTML][HTML] Cardiomyocytes from human pluripotent stem cells: from laboratory curiosity to industrial biomedical platform

C Denning, V Borgdorff, J Crutchley, KSA Firth… - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA …, 2016 - Elsevier
Cardiomyocytes from human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs-CMs) could revolutionise
biomedicine. Global burden of heart failure will soon reach USD $90 bn, while unexpected …