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ArticleCurrent protocols2021

Generation of Neurosphere-Derived Organoid-Like-Aggregates (NEDAS) from Neural Stem Cells.

Fumihiro Watanabe, Austin Schoeffler, Summer R Fair, Mark E Hester, Josh Fedorko, Jaime Imitola

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Article in Current protocols, 2021. 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 3 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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3 · Its place in the literature

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3 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Fumihiro WatanabeLaboratory of Neural Stem cells and Functional Neurogenetics, Division of Multiple Sclerosis and Translational Neuroimmunology, UConn Health Comprehensive Multiple Sclerosis Center, Department of Neurology and Neuroscience UConn School of Medicine, Farmington, Connecticut.
Austin SchoefflerThe Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, Ohio.
Summer R FairThe Steve and Cindy Rasmussen Institute for Genomic Medicine, Abigail Wexner Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, Ohio.
Mark E HesterThe Steve and Cindy Rasmussen Institute for Genomic Medicine, Abigail Wexner Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, Ohio.
Josh FedorkoLaboratory of Neural Stem cells and Functional Neurogenetics, Division of Multiple Sclerosis and Translational Neuroimmunology, UConn Health Comprehensive Multiple Sclerosis Center, Department of Neurology and Neuroscience UConn School of Medicine, Farmington, Connecticut.
Jaime ImitolaLaboratory of Neural Stem cells and Functional Neurogenetics, Division of Multiple Sclerosis and Translational Neuroimmunology, UConn Health Comprehensive Multiple Sclerosis Center, Department of Neurology and Neuroscience UConn School of Medicine, Farmington, Connecticut.
Institute of Neuroimmunology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences · SKNationwide Children's Hospital · USThe Ohio State University · USUConn Health · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Neurosphere cultures have been used to propagate and study the intrinsic properties of neural stem cells (NSCs) for more than two decades but this method has many limitations. It is well known that neurospheres fuse in culture, but the long-term biological consequences of this phenomena are not well characterized. We leveraged the fusion behavior of human neurospheres to improve upon this technique with our Neurosphere-derived organoid-like aggregates (NEDAS) culture method, allowing the fusion of human NSCs at high density, which were maintained in orbital shaker conditions for 8-12 weeks without passing leading to the formation of 3D organoid-like aggregates without the use of Matrigel. NEDAS organoids proliferate and self-organize into neural rosettes, expressing PAX6 and SOX2 in ventricular zone (VZ)-like proliferative areas. Outside these rosettes, we identified corridors of migratory radial glial progenitors expressing Phospo-vimentin, CRYAB. In addition to DLX2, CXCR4 + progenitors. Further, we found immature neurons within cortical-like areas highly enriched for DCX and TUJ1, in addition to GABA+ and excitatory VGLUT1+ neurons. Here, we provide a protocol to generate NEDAS, additionally, we present a protocol for immunostaining of NEDAS organoids for confocal imaging. This protocol may be useful to dissect the self-organization and morphogenetic programs of populations of human NSCs offering an advantageous alternative to the conventional neurospheres method, generating more cell type diversity, within tissue-like aggregates over extended periods of time without dissociation or passing. NEDAS may be a complementary method to cerebral organoids protocols from IPSCs. © 2021 Wiley Periodicals LLC. Basic Protocol 1: Preparation and expansion of cultures of human neural stem cells in reduced growth factor basement matrix Basic Protocol 2: Formation and fusion of neurospheres derived matrigel-free organoid-like aggregates (NEDAS) Basic Protocol 3: Harvest, cryosection, and imaging protocol for NEDAS.

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Induced Pluripotent Stem CellsNeural Stem CellsHumansNeuronsOrganoidsgeneticsneural stem cellsneurodegenerationneurospheresorganoids

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PMID33534198
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