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ArticleCommunications biology2024

Exploring human pancreatic organoid modelling through single-cell RNA sequencing analysis.

Alessandro Cherubini, Francesco Rusconi, Roberta Piras, Kaja Nicole Wächtershäuser, Marta Dossena, Mario Barilani, Cecilia Mei, Lotta Hof, Valeria Sordi, Francesco Pampaloni and 3 more

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Article in Communications biology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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13 authors.

Alessandro CherubiniPrecision Medicine Lab - Department of Transfusion Medicine, Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy. alessandro.cherubini@policlinico.mi.it.ORCID 0000-0003-4756-2046
Francesco RusconiUnit of Cell and Gene Therapies, Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy.
Roberta PirasDepartment of Radiation Oncology, Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Kaja Nicole WächtershäuserPhysical Biology Group, Buchmann Institute for Molecular Life Sciences (BMLS), Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
Marta DossenaUnit of Cell and Gene Therapies, Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy.
Mario BarilaniUnit of Cell and Gene Therapies, Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy.
Cecilia MeiUnit of Cell and Gene Therapies, Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-8859-4557
Lotta HofPhysical Biology Group, Buchmann Institute for Molecular Life Sciences (BMLS), Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
Valeria SordiIRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele, San Raffaele Diabetes Research Institute, Milan, Italy.
Francesco PampaloniPhysical Biology Group, Buchmann Institute for Molecular Life Sciences (BMLS), Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
Vincenza DoloDepartment of Life, Health and Environmental Sciences, University of L'Aquila, L'Aquila, Italy.
Lorenzo PiemontiIRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele, San Raffaele Diabetes Research Institute, Milan, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-2172-2198
Lorenza LazzariUnit of Cell and Gene Therapies, Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy. lorenza.lazzari@policlinico.mi.it.ORCID 0000-0002-9434-4538

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Human organoids have been proposed to be powerful tools mimicking the physiopathological processes of the organs of origin. Recently, human pancreatic organoids (hPOs) have gained increasing attention due to potential theragnostic and regenerative medicine applications. However, the cellular components of hPOs have not been defined precisely. In this work, we finely characterized these structures, focusing first on morphology and identity-defining molecular features under long-term culture conditions. Next, we focused our attention on hPOs cell type composition using single-cell RNA sequencing founding a complex heterogeneity in ductal components, ranging from progenitor components to terminally differentiated ducts. Furthermore, an extensive comparison of human pancreatic organoids with previously reported transcriptomics signature of human and mouse pancreatic ductal populations, confirmed the functional pancreatic duct subpopulation heterogeneity. Finally, we showed that pancreatic organoid cells follow a precise developmental trajectory and utilize diverse signalling mechanisms, including EGF and SPP1, to facilitate cell-cell communication and maturation. Together our results offer an in-depth description of human pancreatic organoids providing a strong foundation for future in vitro diagnostic and translational studies of pancreatic health and disease.

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OrganoidsPancreasSequence Analysis, RNASingle-Cell AnalysisAnimalsCell DifferentiationHumansMiceTranscriptome

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PMID39558019
PMCPMC11574267

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