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ReviewNeuroscience bulletin2024

Emerging Human Pluripotent Stem Cell-Based Human-Animal Brain Chimeras for Advancing Disease Modeling and Cell Therapy for Neurological Disorders.

Yanru Ji, Jenna Lillie McLean, Ranjie Xu

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Review in Neuroscience bulletin, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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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

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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

4 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Yanru JiDepartment of Basic Medical Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 47907, USA.
Jenna Lillie McLeanDepartment of Basic Medical Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 47907, USA.
Ranjie XuDepartment of Basic Medical Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 47907, USA. xu1726@purdue.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9401-6430

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Human pluripotent stem cell (hPSC) models provide unprecedented opportunities to study human neurological disorders by recapitulating human-specific disease mechanisms. In particular, hPSC-based human-animal brain chimeras enable the study of human cell pathophysiology in vivo. In chimeric brains, human neural and immune cells can maintain human-specific features, undergo maturation, and functionally integrate into host brains, allowing scientists to study how human cells impact neural circuits and animal behaviors. The emerging human-animal brain chimeras hold promise for modeling human brain cells and their interactions in health and disease, elucidating the disease mechanism from molecular and cellular to circuit and behavioral levels, and testing the efficacy of cell therapy interventions. Here, we discuss recent advances in the generation and applications of using human-animal chimeric brain models for the study of neurological disorders, including disease modeling and cell therapy.

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BrainCell- and Tissue-Based TherapyChimeraNervous System DiseasesPluripotent Stem CellsAnimalsDisease Models, AnimalHumansCell therapyDisease modelingHuman–animal chimeraHuman neurons and gliaHuman pluripotent stem cellMicrogliaNeurological disorderOrganoid

Identifiers

PMID38466557
PMCPMC11365908

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