Human Astrocyte Maturation Captured in 3D Cerebral Cortical Spheroids Derived from Pluripotent Stem Cells

Neuron

Volumn 95, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 779-790.e6

  Sloan, Steven A ^a   Darmanis, Spyros ^b   Huber, Nina ^a   Khan, Themasap A ^a   Birey, Fikri ^a   Caneda, Christine ^a   Reimer, Richard ^a   Quake, Stephen R ^b   Barres, Ben A ^a   Paşca, Sergiu P ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

astrocyte; cerebral cortex; hCS; human; iPSC; maturation; organoids; RNA seq; spheroids; transcriptome

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ASTROCYTE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN CORTEX; CELL CULTURE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CYTOLOGY; FETUS; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ASTROCYTES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLS, CULTURED; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FETUS; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 85027467521     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: 10974199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2017.07.035     Document Type: Article

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