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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2016

Neural tube morphogenesis in synthetic 3D microenvironments.

Adrian Ranga, Mehmet Girgin, Andrea Meinhardt, Dominic Eberle, Massimiliano Caiazzo, Elly M Tanaka, Matthias P Lutolf

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 112 papers.

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112 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Adrian RangaLaboratory of Stem Cell Bioengineering, Institute of Bioengineering, School of Life Sciences and School of Engineering, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.
Mehmet GirginLaboratory of Stem Cell Bioengineering, Institute of Bioengineering, School of Life Sciences and School of Engineering, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.
Andrea MeinhardtCenter for Regenerative Therapies Dresden (CRTD), Technische Universität Dresden, 01307 Dresden, Germany.
Dominic EberleCenter for Regenerative Therapies Dresden (CRTD), Technische Universität Dresden, 01307 Dresden, Germany.
Massimiliano CaiazzoLaboratory of Stem Cell Bioengineering, Institute of Bioengineering, School of Life Sciences and School of Engineering, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.
Elly M TanakaCenter for Regenerative Therapies Dresden (CRTD), Technische Universität Dresden, 01307 Dresden, Germany.
Matthias P LutolfLaboratory of Stem Cell Bioengineering, Institute of Bioengineering, School of Life Sciences and School of Engineering, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland; matthias.lutolf@epfl.ch.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Three-dimensional organoid constructs serve as increasingly widespread in vitro models for development and disease modeling. Current approaches to recreate morphogenetic processes in vitro rely on poorly controllable and ill-defined matrices, thereby largely overlooking the contribution of biochemical and biophysical extracellular matrix (ECM) factors in promoting multicellular growth and reorganization. Here, we show how defined synthetic matrices can be used to explore the role of the ECM in the development of complex 3D neuroepithelial cysts that recapitulate key steps in early neurogenesis. We demonstrate how key ECM parameters are involved in specifying cytoskeleton-mediated symmetry-breaking events that ultimately lead to neural tube-like patterning along the dorsal-ventral (DV) axis. Such synthetic materials serve as valuable tools for studying the discrete action of extrinsic factors in organogenesis, and allow for the discovery of relationships between cytoskeletal mechanobiology and morphogenesis.

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developmentembryonic stem cellextracellular matrixneural tubeorganoid

Identifiers

PMID27742791
PMCPMC5098636

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