An in vivo model of functional and vascularized human brain organoids

Nature Biotechnology

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2018, Pages 432-441

  Mansour, Abed Alfatah ^a   Gonçalves, J Tiago ^a,c   Bloyd, Cooper W ^a   Li, Hao ^a   Fernandes, Sarah ^a,b   Quang, Daphne ^a   Johnston, Stephen ^a   Parylak, Sarah L ^a   Jin, Xin ^a   Gage, Fred H ^a  

^a SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

^b SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD VESSELS; BRAIN; NEURAL NETWORKS; STEM CELLS;

EXTRACELLULAR RECORDING; NEURONAL ACTIVITIES; NEURONAL DIFFERENTIATION; PHYSIOLOGICAL CONDITION; PHYSIOLOGICAL ENVIRONMENT; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS; SYNAPTIC CONNECTIVITY; TWO PHOTON IMAGING;

NEURONS;

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; DISKS LARGE HOMOLOG 4; ENDOGLIN; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; IBA1 PROTEIN; MICROTUBULE ASSOCIATED PROTEIN 2; MYELIN BASIC PROTEIN; NEURON SPECIFIC NUCLEAR PROTEIN; OLIGODENDROCYTE TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 2; PLATELET ENDOTHELIAL CELL ADHESION MOLECULE 1; SYNAPSIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AXON; BRAIN; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN DISEASE; CELL MATURATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FETUS; FUNCTIONAL CONNECTIVITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MICROGLIA; MOUSE; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NEURAL STEM CELL; NONHUMAN; ORGANOID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNAPSE; ANIMAL; BLOOD VESSEL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CYTOLOGY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; NERVE CELL; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; PHYSIOLOGY; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; TRANSPLANTATION;

ANIMALS; BLOOD VESSELS; BRAIN; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; HUMANS; MICE; NEUROGENESIS; NEURONS; ORGANOIDS; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS; TRANSPLANTS;

EID: 85046672343     PISSN: 10870156     EISSN: 15461696     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nbt.4127     Document Type: Article

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