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ArticleJournal of tissue engineering

Adapting tissue-engineered in vitro CNS models for high-throughput study of neurodegeneration.

Caitriona O'Rourke, Charlotte Lee-Reeves, Rosemary Al Drake, Grant Ww Cameron, A Jane Loughlin, James B Phillips

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Article in Journal of tissue engineering. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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6 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. A MinireviewFrontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2022
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  6. Stem cells technology: a powerful tool behind new brain treatments.Drug delivery and translational research · 2018
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Caitriona O'RourkeDepartment of Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering, UCL Eastman Dental Institute, University College London, London, UK.
Charlotte Lee-ReevesDepartment of Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering, UCL Eastman Dental Institute, University College London, London, UK.
Rosemary Al DrakeTAP Biosystems, Royston, UK.
Grant Ww CameronTAP Biosystems, Royston, UK.
A Jane LoughlinDepartment of Life, Health and Chemical Sciences, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK.
James B PhillipsDepartment of Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering, UCL Eastman Dental Institute, University College London, London, UK.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Neurodegenerative conditions remain difficult to treat, with the continuing failure to see therapeutic research successfully advance to clinical trials. One of the obstacles that must be overcome is to develop enhanced models of disease. Tissue engineering techniques enable us to create organised artificial central nervous system tissue that has the potential to improve the drug development process. This study presents a replicable model of neurodegenerative pathology through the use of engineered neural tissue co-cultures that can incorporate cells from various sources and allow degeneration and protection of neurons to be observed easily and measured, following exposure to neurotoxic compounds - okadaic acid and 1-methyl-4-phenylpyridinium. Furthermore, the technology has been miniaturised through development of a mould with 6 mm length that recreates the advantageous features of engineered neural tissue co-cultures at a scale suitable for commercial research and development. Integration of human-derived induced pluripotent stem cells aids more accurate modelling of human diseases, creating new possibilities for engineered neural tissue co-cultures and their use in drug screening.

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drug screeninginduced pluripotent stem cellsNeurodegenerationneuronsthree-dimensional models

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PMID28507726
PMCPMC5415290

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