ArticleCell proliferation2023
A three-dimensional spheroid co-culture system of neurons and astrocytes derived from Alzheimer's disease patients for drug efficacy testing.
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- A three-dimensional spheroid co-culture system of neurons and astrocytes derived from Alzheimer's disease patients for drug efficacy testing.Cell proliferation · 2023Article
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Abstract
Cell culture systems derived from the progenitor cells of human patients have many advantages over animal models for therapeutic drug testing and studies of disease pathogenesis. Here we describe a three-dimensional (3D) spheroid co-culture system of neurons and astrocytes derived from induced pluripotent stem cells-neural precursor cells (iPSCs-NPCs) of Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients or healthy individuals that can provide information on drug efficacy unobtainable by 2D co-culture or monoculture approaches. iPSCs-NPCs of healthy controls or AD patients were seeded onto 96-well U-bottom plates and incubated with neuronal differentiation medium for one week and with astrocytic medium for two weeks to replicate the temporal order of cell maturation during brain development. These 3D spheroid models expressed marker proteins for mature neurons and astrocytes. In particular, patient-derived spheroids showed beta-amyloid (Aβ) accumulation as revealed by thioflavin T (ThT) staining and ELISA. Aggregation of Aβ induced caspase activation and cell death, while the neuroprotectants nordihydroguaiaretic acid (NDGA) and curcumin (CU) reduced the levels of both ThT and caspase staining. Taken together, these results demonstrate the feasibility of our 3D spheroids combined with ThT and caspase staining as a patient-based anti-AD drug screening platform.
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