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 …

Optogenetic gene therapy for the degenerate retina: recent advances

ME McClements, F Staurenghi, RE MacLaren… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The degeneration of light-detecting rod and cone photoreceptors in the human retina leads
to severe visual impairment and ultimately legal blindness in millions of people worldwide …

Advances in development and application of human organoids

A Shankaran, K Prasad, S Chaudhari, A Brand… - 3 Biotech, 2021 - Springer
Innumerable studies associated with cellular differentiation, tissue response and disease
modeling have been conducted in two-dimensional (2D) culture systems or animal models …

Emerging strategies of engineering retinal organoids and organoid-on-a-chip in modeling intraocular drug delivery: Current progress and future perspectives

J Yu, Y Yin, Y Leng, J Zhang, C Wang, Y Chen… - Advanced Drug Delivery …, 2023 - Elsevier
Retinal diseases are a rising concern as major causes of blindness in an aging society;
therapeutic options are limited, and the precise pathogenesis of these diseases remains …

Human organoids for the study of retinal development and disease

CM Bell, DJ Zack, CA Berlinicke - Annual review of vision …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Recent advances in stem cell engineering have led to an explosion in the use of organoids
as model systems for studies in multiple biological disciplines. Together with breakthroughs …

Organoid technology: A reliable developmental biology tool for organ-specific nanotoxicity evaluation

M Prasad, R Kumar, L Buragohain, A Kumari… - Frontiers in cell and …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Engineered nanomaterials are bestowed with certain inherent physicochemical properties
unlike their parent materials, rendering them suitable for the multifaceted needs of state-of …

[HTML][HTML] Tropism of AAV vectors in photoreceptor-like cells of human iPSC-derived retinal organoids

ME McClements, H Steward, W Atkin… - … Vision Science & …, 2022 - iovs.arvojournals.org
Purpose: To expand the use of human retinal organoids from induced pluripotent stem cells
(iPSCs) as an in vitro model of the retina for assessing gene therapy treatments, it is …

Retinal organoids: cultivation, differentiation, and transplantation

X Li, L Zhang, F Tang, X Wei - Frontiers in cellular neuroscience, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Retinal organoids (ROs), which are derived from stem cells, can automatically form three-
dimensional laminar structures that include all cell types and the ultrastructure of the retina …

The role of small molecules and their effect on the molecular mechanisms of early retinal organoid development

EL Wagstaff, A Heredero Berzal, CJF Boon… - International journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Early in vivo embryonic retinal development is a well-documented and evolutionary
conserved process. The specification towards eye development is temporally controlled by …

Retinal organoids from human-induced pluripotent stem cells: From studying retinal dystrophies to early diagnosis of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease

MI Móvio, TH de Lima-Vasconcellos… - Seminars in Cell & …, 2023 - Elsevier
Human-induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) have provided new methods to study
neurodegenerative diseases. In addition to their wide application in neuronal disorders …