Evidence map›Paper›PMID 34985918›Full record

ReviewAnnual review of neuroscience2022

Challenges of Organoid Research.

Madeline G Andrews, Arnold R Kriegstein

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Review in Annual review of neuroscience, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 151 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
151citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
19.6field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

151 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 225 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. Intestinal Organoids Culture in Synthetic Hydrogels.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2027
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  6. GLP-1R agonist semaglutide protects human forebrain organoids from cholesterol-induced neurotoxicity.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2026
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  13. Recent advancements and limitations of intestinal organoids for clinical applications.Progress in biomedical engineering (Bristol, England) · 2026
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91 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Madeline G AndrewsDepartment of Neurology and Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA; email: Arnold.Kriegstein@ucsf.edu.
Arnold R KriegsteinDepartment of Neurology and Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA; email: Arnold.Kriegstein@ucsf.edu.
Broad Center · USUniversity of California, San Francisco · US

Funding

Development and Expansion of the Human Cerebral CortexR35NS097305 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI KRIEGSTEIN, ARNOLD · 2017 to 2024
$8.5M
A Cellular Resolution Census of the Developing Human BrainU01MH114825 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI HUANG, ERIC J, KRIEGSTEIN, ARNOLD · 2017 to 2021
$6.7M
Improving Brain Organoid Models by Mediating Metabolic DysregulationK99MH125329 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI ANDREWS, MADELINE · 2020 to 2021
$164k
NIMH NIH HHS K99 MH125329NIMH NIH HHS U01 MH114825NINDS NIH HHS R35 NS097305
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Organoids are 3D cell culture systems derived from human pluripotent stem cells that contain tissue resident cell types and reflect features of early tissue organization. Neural organoids are a particularly innovative scientific advance given the lack of accessibility of developing human brain tissue and intractability of neurological diseases. Neural organoids have become an invaluable approach to model features of human brain development that are not well reflected in animal models. Organoids also hold promise for the study of atypical cellular, molecular, and genetic features that underscore neurological diseases. Additionally, organoids may provide a platform for testing therapeutics in human cells and are a potential source for cell replacement approaches to brain injury or disease. Despite the promising features of organoids, their broad utility is tempered by a variety of limitations yet to be overcome, including lack of high-fidelity cell types, limited maturation, atypical physiology, and lack of arealization, features that may limit their reliability for certain applications.

Indexed as

Induced Pluripotent Stem CellsNervous System DiseasesAnimalsBrainOrganoidsReproducibility of Resultshuman developmentmodeling human diseaseneural developmentneuroscienceorganoidsstem cell models

Identifiers

PMID34985918
PMCPMC10559943
OpenAlexW4205718273

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