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ArticleJournal of tissue engineering

Human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived planar neural organoids assembled on synthetic hydrogels.

Joydeb Majumder, Elizabeth E Torr, Elizabeth A Aisenbrey, Connie S Lebakken, Peter F Favreau, William D Richards, Yanhong Yin, Qiang Chang, William L Murphy

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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 18 papers.

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18citing papers in PubMed
3.7field-weighted citation impact, top 6% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

18 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

9 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Joydeb MajumderDepartment of Orthopedics and Rehabilitation, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA.
Elizabeth E TorrDepartment of Orthopedics and Rehabilitation, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA.
Elizabeth A AisenbreyDepartment of Orthopedics and Rehabilitation, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA.
Connie S LebakkenStem Pharm, Incorporated, Madison, WI, USA.
Peter F FavreauStem Pharm, Incorporated, Madison, WI, USA.
William D RichardsStem Pharm, Incorporated, Madison, WI, USA.
Yanhong YinWaisman Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA.
Qiang ChangWaisman Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA.
William L MurphyDepartment of Orthopedics and Rehabilitation, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5577-7739
University of Wisconsin–Madison · US

Funding

Harnessing human brain and liver microphysiological systems for testing therapeutics for metastatic melanomaU01TR002383 · NCATS · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY · PI MURPHY, WILLIAM L., TAYLOR, D. LANSING · 2018 to 2022
$7.6M
Biomaterials for local regulation of growth factor signalingR01HL093282 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON · PI MURPHY, WILLIAM L. · 2009 to 2018
$3.3M
Hydrogel-enabled self-assembled human brain organoids for neurotoxicity applicationsR44ES029898 · NIEHS · STEM PHARM, INC. · PI LEBAKKEN, CONNIE S · 2021 to 2022
$1.7M
A Neurovascular Microphysiological SystemR01NS109427 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON · PI MURPHY, WILLIAM L. · 2019 to 2023
$1.7M
Synthetic biomaterials designed for the generation of mouse neural organoids for in vitro toxicity screening.R43ES029897 · NIEHS · STEM PHARM, INC. · PI LEBAKKEN, CONNIE S · 2018 to 2019
$280k
Hydrogel-enabled self-assembled human brain organoids for developmental neurotoxicity applicationsR43ES029898 · NIEHS · STEM PHARM, INC. · PI LEBAKKEN, CONNIE S · 2019 to 2019
$225k
NCATS NIH HHS U01 TR002383NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL093282NIEHS NIH HHS R43 ES029897NIEHS NIH HHS R43 ES029898NIEHS NIH HHS R44 ES029898NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS109427
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The tailorable properties of synthetic polyethylene glycol (PEG) hydrogels make them an attractive substrate for human organoid assembly. Here, we formed human neural organoids from iPSC-derived progenitor cells in two distinct formats: (i) cells seeded on a Matrigel surface; and (ii) cells seeded on a synthetic PEG hydrogel surface. Tissue assembly on synthetic PEG hydrogels resulted in three dimensional (3D) planar neural organoids with greater neuronal diversity, greater expression of neurovascular and neuroinflammatory genes, and reduced variability when compared with tissues assembled upon Matrigel. Further, our 3D human tissue assembly approach occurred in an open cell culture format and created a tissue that was sufficiently translucent to allow for continuous imaging. Planar neural organoids formed on PEG hydrogels also showed higher expression of neural, vascular, and neuroinflammatory genes when compared to traditional brain organoids grown in Matrigel suspensions. Further, planar neural organoids contained functional microglia that responded to pro-inflammatory stimuli, and were responsive to anti-inflammatory drugs. These results demonstrate that the PEG hydrogel neural organoids can be used as a physiologically relevant

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disease modelingneural tissue engineeringneuroinflammationorganoidsPEG hydrogels

Identifiers

PMID38361535
PMCPMC10868488
OpenAlexW4391826294

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