Dishing out mini-brains: Current progress and future prospects in brain organoid research

Developmental Biology

Volumn 420, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 199-209

  Kelava, Iva ^a   Lancaster, Madeline A ^a  

^a MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cortex; Human brain development; In vitro; Neural differentiation; Neurological disorder; Organoid; Stem cells

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUE; CELL FUNCTION; CELLS BY BODY ANATOMY; CLUSTERED REGULARLY INTERSPACED SHORT PALINDROMIC REPEAT; CYTOLOGY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; MAMMAL; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MENTAL DISEASE; MORPHOGENESIS; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEURAL STEM CELL; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; BRAIN; EMBRYOLOGY; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUE; ORGANOGENESIS; ORGANOID; PROCEDURES;

BRAIN; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURODEVELOPMENTAL DISORDERS; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; ORGANOGENESIS; ORGANOIDS;

EID: 84996921196     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: 1095564X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2016.06.037     Document Type: Review

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