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Cerebral organoids model human brain development and microcephaly
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The complexity of the human brain has made it difficult to study many brain disorders in model organisms, highlighting the need for an in vitro model of human brain development. Here we have developed a human pluripotent stem cell-derived three-dimensional organoid culture system, termed cerebral organoids, that develop various discrete, although interdependent, brain regions. These include a cerebral cortex containing progenitor populations that organize and produce mature cortical neuron subtypes. Furthermore, cerebral organoids are shown to recapitulate features of human cortical development, namely characteristic progenitor zone organization with abundant outer radial glial stem cells. Finally, we use RNA interference and patient-specific induced pluripotent stem cells to model microcephaly, a disorder that has been difficult to recapitulate in mice. We demonstrate premature neuronal differentiation in patient organoids, a defect that could help to explain the disease phenotype. Together, these data show that three-dimensional organoids can recapitulate development and disease even in this most complex human tissue.
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“With their 3D structures and cell components resembling the human brain, these organoids can replicate the complex brain microenvironment better than 2D in vitro models (15–17, 19)”
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“hiPSC-derived astrocytes, which can be generated with a fast protocol in 2D layers104 or integrated in 3D systems such as spheroids and organoids105–108”
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“The differentiation protocol was further optimized by integrating established principles of neuronal development to ensure reproducibility and high neuronal purity (Lancaster et al. 2013;Lancaster and Knoblich 2014a;Lancaster and Knoblich 2014b).”
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“Promising disease models of the liver65,66, pancreas67,68, central nervous system35,69,70, skin71, lung72,73, intestine72–76, musculoskeletal system77 and heart78–81 have been developed, but their equivalence or superiority over their animal models needs to be demonstrated.”
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“These 3D “organoids” are often found to have instructive morphogenetic cues resulting in self organization similarly found in vivo [53,54].”
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“Human brain organoids are 3D cultures derived from human pluripotent stem cells and recapitulate native brain cellular components, cytoarchitecture, and exhibit neural activity.22–24”
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“Organoid development followed the expected temporal changes (Lancaster et al., 2013; Velasco et al., 2019; Watanabe et al., 2017; Yoon et al., 2019; Figures 1B–1D; Figure S1A).”
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“Although organoids have been used to investigate disease-associated genes9–11, they are limited by phenotypic variability and low throughput.”
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“Brain organoids recapitulate early brain development and generate diverse cell types found in vivo9.”
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“Consistent with a more mature phenotype, APOE3Ch organoids stained prominently with Reelin, a marker of more mature neurons (Figures 4A–D; Lancaster et al., 2013; Di Lullo and Kriegstein, 2017).”
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“The production of radial glial cells, intermediate progenitors, and deep- and superficial-layer neurons in an ordered temporal fashion has been reported by studies using all of the protocols currently in use2,3,5,25.”
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“Both of these protocols generated organoids containing a dorsalized neuroepithelium that reproduced certain aspects of cortical development, both structurally and in terms of cell behaviour.”
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“Some protocols build on the principles of spontaneous neural induction by using medium that is free of neural induction signalling molecules2,27. This promotes the generation of diverse brain regions and cell populations2,28,29.”
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“Cerebral organoids grown from these cells contained fewer proliferating progenitor cells and showed premature neural differentiation compared to wild-type counterparts.”
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“Interestingly, the developmental timing of cortical neurogenesis appears to be conserved in vitro and has been demonstrated with both suspension and adherent differentiation methods2,3,5,39.”
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“Cerebral or other unguided neural organoids develop from embryonic stem (ES) cells or induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells into a three-dimensional neuroepithelium that self-patterns, regionalizes and, ultimately, forms neurons of the different brain regions1–3.”
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“Self-organizing neural organoids grown from pluripotent stem cells1–3 combined with single-cell genomic technologies provide opportunities to examine gene regulatory networks underlying human brain development.”
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“Brain organoids have been used to successfully model microcephaly2, periventricular heterotopia10, autism11 and other neurodevelopmental disorders12,13 that may have differential effects on the various human brain regions.”
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“IPSC models of rare microcephaly syndromes have been shown to undergo loss of neuronal progenitor cells and premature neural differentiation (Lancaster et al., 2013).”
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“Three-dimensional brain organoids derived from human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) have shown significant advantages in modeling neurological disorders including autism, microcephaly and Parkinson’s disease.528–530”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Lancaster, M. A., Renner, M., Martin, C.-A., Wenzel, D., Bicknell, L. S., Hurles, M. E., Homfray, T., Penninger, J. M., Jackson, A. P., & Knoblich, J. A.
- Affiliations
- Institute of Molecular Biotechnology (AT)
- Institute of Genetics and Cancer (GB)
- Wellcome Sanger Institute (GB)
- St George's, University of London (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Knoblich, Juergen A.
- ORCID
- Venue
- Nature
- Published
- 2013-08-28
- Volume
- 501
- Issue
- 7467
- Pages
- 373-379
- ISSN
- 0028-0836 (ISSN-L)
- 1476-4687
- PMC
- PMC3817409
- OpenAlex
- W2018286352
- Cited by
- 5,372
- References
- 57
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- FWCI
- 72.04
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Nature (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Edinburgh Research Explorer (University of Edinburgh) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Funders
- Wellcome Trust (WT 098051)
- Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine
- Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
- Austrian Science Fund
- Medical Research Council
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Developmental Neuroscience › Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Pluripotent Stem Cells Research
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Developmental Biology and Gene Regulation
- Keywords
- brain organoids, human brain development, microcephaly, pluripotent stem cells, induced pluripotent stem cells, three-dimensional organoid culture, cortical development, neuronal differentiation, patient-derived disease model
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Brain, Cerebral Cortex, Humans, Microcephaly, Models, Biological, Neurons, Organoids, Tissue Culture Techniques, Mice, Neurogenesis, Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells, Neural Stem Cells
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