Functional roles of reactive astrocytes in neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration

R Patani, GE Hardingham, SA Liddelow - Nature Reviews Neurology, 2023 - nature.com
Despite advances in uncovering the mechanisms that underlie neuroinflammation and
neurodegenerative disease, therapies that prevent neuronal loss remain elusive. Targeting …

Progress and potential in organoid research

G Rossi, A Manfrin, MP Lutolf - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2018 - nature.com
Tissue and organ biology are very challenging to study in mammals, and progress can be
hindered, particularly in humans, by sample accessibility and ethical concerns. However …

[HTML][HTML] Age-dependent instability of mature neuronal fate in induced neurons from Alzheimer's patients

J Mertens, JR Herdy, L Traxler, ST Schafer… - Cell stem cell, 2021 - cell.com
Sporadic Alzheimer's disease (AD) exclusively affects elderly people. Using direct
conversion of AD patient fibroblasts into induced neurons (iNs), we generated an age …

Age-related Huntington's disease progression modeled in directly reprogrammed patient-derived striatal neurons highlights impaired autophagy

YM Oh, SW Lee, WK Kim, S Chen, VA Church… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Huntington's disease (HD) is an inherited neurodegenerative disorder with adult-onset
clinical symptoms, but the mechanism by which aging drives the onset of neurodegeneration …

Brain organoids: advances, applications and challenges

X Qian, H Song, G Ming - Development, 2019 - journals.biologists.com
Brain organoids are self-assembled three-dimensional aggregates generated from
pluripotent stem cells with cell types and cytoarchitectures that resemble the embryonic …

Selective vulnerability in neurodegenerative diseases

H Fu, J Hardy, KE Duff - Nature neuroscience, 2018 - nature.com
Neurodegenerative diseases have two general characteristics that are so fundamental we
usually take them for granted. The first is that the pathology associated with the disease only …

[HTML][HTML] Current challenges of iPSC-based disease modeling and therapeutic implications

MX Doss, A Sachinidis - Cells, 2019 - mdpi.com
Induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC)-based disease modelling and the cell replacement
therapy approach have proven to be very powerful and instrumental in biomedical research …

Dopamine oxidation mediates mitochondrial and lysosomal dysfunction in Parkinson's disease

LF Burbulla, P Song, JR Mazzulli, E Zampese… - Science, 2017 - science.org
Mitochondrial and lysosomal dysfunction have been implicated in substantia nigra
dopaminergic neurodegeneration in Parkinson's disease (PD), but how these pathways are …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] iPSC-based disease modeling and drug discovery in cardinal neurodegenerative disorders

H Okano, S Morimoto - Cell Stem Cell, 2022 - cell.com
It has been 15 years since the birth of human induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC)
technology in 2007, and the scope of its application has been expanding. In addition to the …