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ArticleInflammatory bowel diseases2022

The Promise of Patient-Derived Colon Organoids to Model Ulcerative Colitis.

Babajide A Ojo, Kelli L VanDussen, Michael J Rosen

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Article in Inflammatory bowel diseases, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.

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16citing papers in PubMed
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

16 citing papers in PubMed, 20 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Babajide A OjoDivisions of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States.ORCID 0000-0003-3100-6635
Kelli L VanDussenDivisions of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States.
Michael J RosenDivisions of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States.
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center · US

Funding

Epigenetic and functional determination of colon organoids as a patient-specific preclinical model of ulcerative colitisR21DK123691 · NIDDK · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI ROSEN, MICHAEL J · 2020 to 2021
$426k
Durability of Epithelial Defects in Crohn's Disease IntestineR03DK124751 · NIDDK · CINCINNATI CHILDRENS HOSP MED CTR · PI VANDUSSEN, KELLI LYNN · 2021 to 2022
$239k
NIDDK NIH HHS R03 DK124751
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Physiologic, molecular, and genetic findings all point to impaired intestinal epithelial function as a key element in the multifactorial pathogenesis of ulcerative colitis (UC). The lack of epithelial-directed therapies is a conspicuous weakness of our UC therapeutic armamentarium. However, a critical barrier to new drug discovery is the lack of preclinical human models of UC. Patient tissue-derived colon epithelial organoids (colonoids) are primary epithelial stem cell-derived in vitro structures capable of self-organization and self-renewal that hold great promise as a human preclinical model for UC drug development. Several single and multi-tissue systems for colonoid culture have been developed, including 3-dimensional colonoids grown in a gelatinous extracellular matrix, 2-dimensional polarized monolayers, and colonoids on a chip that model luminal and blood flow and nutrient delivery. A small number of pioneering studies suggest that colonoids derived from UC patients retain some disease-related transcriptional and epigenetic changes, but they also raise questions regarding the persistence of inflammatory transcriptional programs in culture over time. Additional research is needed to fully characterize the extent to which and under what conditions colonoids accurately model disease-associated epithelial molecular and functional aberrations. With further advancement and standardization of colonoid culture methodology, colonoids will likely become an important tool for realizing precision medicine in UC.

Indexed as

Colitis, UlcerativeOrganoidsColonHumansIntestinal MucosaStem Cellsenteroidinflammatory bowel diseasein vitro modelorgan on a chippersonalized medicine

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PMID34251431
PMCPMC8804507
OpenAlexW3182280778

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