Modeling Alzheimer's disease with iPSC-derived brain cells

J Penney, WT Ralvenius, LH Tsai - Molecular psychiatry, 2020 - nature.com
Alzheimer's disease is a devastating neurodegenerative disorder with no cure. Countless
promising therapeutics have shown efficacy in rodent Alzheimer's disease models yet failed …

[HTML][HTML] Neuroimmune signaling in alcohol use disorder

EK Erickson, EK Grantham, AS Warden… - Pharmacology …, 2019 - Elsevier
Alcohol use disorder (AUD) is a widespread disease with limited treatment options.
Targeting the neuroimmune system is a new avenue for developing or repurposing effective …

[HTML][HTML] A transcription factor atlas of directed differentiation

J Joung, S Ma, T Tay, KR Geiger-Schuller… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Transcription factors (TFs) regulate gene programs, thereby controlling diverse cellular
processes and cell states. To comprehensively understand TFs and the programs they …

INPP5D regulates inflammasome activation in human microglia

V Chou, RV Pearse, AJ Aylward, N Ashour… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Microglia and neuroinflammation play an important role in the development and progression
of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Inositol polyphosphate-5-phosphatase D (INPP5D/SHIP1) is a …

A comprehensive library of human transcription factors for cell fate engineering

AHM Ng, P Khoshakhlagh, JE Rojo Arias… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) offer an unprecedented opportunity to model diverse
cell types and tissues. To enable systematic exploration of the programming landscape …

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 …

Human Alzheimer's disease reactive astrocytes exhibit a loss of homeostastic gene expression

DL Dai, M Li, EB Lee - Acta Neuropathologica Communications, 2023 - Springer
Astrocytes are one of the brain's major cell types and are responsible for maintaining
neuronal homeostasis via regulating the extracellular environment, providing metabolic …

[HTML][HTML] Transcriptional alterations in dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and nucleus accumbens implicate neuroinflammation and synaptic remodeling in opioid use …

ML Seney, SM Kim, JR Glausier, MA Hildebrand… - Biological …, 2021 - Elsevier
Background Prevalence rates of opioid use disorder (OUD) have increased dramatically,
accompanied by a surge of overdose deaths. While opioid dependence has been …

CD49f is a novel marker of functional and reactive human iPSC-derived astrocytes

L Barbar, T Jain, M Zimmer, I Kruglikov, JS Sadick… - Neuron, 2020 - cell.com
New methods for investigating human astrocytes are urgently needed, given their critical
role in the central nervous system. Here we show that CD49f is a novel marker for human …

[HTML][HTML] Human stem cell models of neurodegeneration: From basic science of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis to clinical translation

E Giacomelli, BF Vahsen, EL Calder, Y Xu, J Scaber… - Cell Stem Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Neurodegenerative diseases are characterized by progressive cell loss leading to disruption
of the structure and function of the central nervous system. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis …