hESC-Derived Thalamic Organoids Form Reciprocal Projections When Fused with Cortical Organoids

Yangfei Xiang, Yoshiaki Tanaka, Bilal Cakir, Benjamin Patterson, Kun Yong Kim, Pingnan Sun, Young Jin Kang, Mei Zhong, Xinran Liu, Prabir Patra, Sang Hun Lee, Sherman M. Weissman, In Hyun Park

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Abstract

Xiang and colleagues report a method for generating human thalamus-like brain organoids (hThOs) that recapitulate the development of human thalamus. By fusing hThOs and cortical-like brain organoids (hCOs), they establish a 3D system in a dish to create the reciprocal projections between thalamus and cortex.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)487-497.e7
JournalCell Stem Cell
Volume24
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - Mar 7 2019

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
We thank Dr. Andrew G. Elefanty for sharing HES-3 NKX2-1 GFP/w human ES cell line. I.-H.P. was partly supported by NIH ( GM111667-01 , R01AA025080-01 , R01CA203011-2 ), CSCRF ( 14-SCC-YALE-01 , 16-RMB-YALE-04 ), Kavli Foundation , and KRIBB/KRCF research initiative program ( NAP-09-3 ). This work was supported by the College of Medicine, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences to S.-H.L. and Core Facilities of the Center for Translational Neuroscience , Award P30 GM110702 from the IDeA program at NIGMS . Computation time was provided by Yale University Biomedical High Performance Computing Center .

Funding Information:
We thank Dr. Andrew G. Elefanty for sharing HES-3 NKX2-1GFP/w human ES cell line. I.-H.P. was partly supported by NIH (GM111667-01, R01AA025080-01, R01CA203011-2), CSCRF (14-SCC-YALE-01, 16-RMB-YALE-04), Kavli Foundation, and KRIBB/KRCF research initiative program (NAP-09-3). This work was supported by the College of Medicine, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences to S.-H.L. and Core Facilities of the Center for Translational Neuroscience, Award P30 GM110702 from the IDeA program at NIGMS. Computation time was provided by Yale University Biomedical High Performance Computing Center.

Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 Elsevier Inc.

Keywords

  • brain organoid
  • cortex
  • corticothalamic
  • fusion
  • hESC
  • single cell RNA-seq
  • thalamic organoid
  • thalamocortical
  • thalamus

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Molecular Medicine
  • Genetics
  • Cell Biology

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