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Drug discovery through stem cell-based organoid models

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The development of new drugs is currently a long and costly process in large part due to the failure of promising drug candidates identified in initial in vitro screens to perform as intended in vivo. New approaches to drug screening are being developed wh ...

Elsevier2014

Artificial three-dimensional niches deconstruct pancreas development in vitro

Matthias Lütolf, Filippo De Franceschi, Anne Grapin-Botton, Adrian Ranga, Samy Gobaa, Chiara Greggio

In the context of a cellular therapy for diabetes, methods for pancreatic progenitor expansion and subsequent differentiation into insulin-producing beta cells would be extremely valuable. Here we establish three-dimensional culture conditions in Matrigel ...

Company Of Biologists Ltd2013

Accelerated High-Yield Generation of Limb-Innervating Motor Neurons from Human Stem Cells

Human pluripotent stem cells are a promising source of differentiated cells for developmental studies, cell transplantation, disease modeling, and drug testing. However, their widespread use even for intensely studied cell types like spinal motor neurons i ...

2013

Embryonic stem cell-based screen for small molecules: cluster analysis reveals four response patterns in developing neural cells

David Michael Suter, Mathurin Baquié

Neural differentiation of embryonic stem cells (ESC) is considered a promising model to perform in vitro testing for neuroactive and neurotoxic compounds. We studied the potential of a dual reporter murine ESC line to identify bioactive and/or toxic compou ...

2013

Long-term maintenance of mouse embryonic stem cell pluripotency by manipulating integrin signaling within 3D scaffolds without active Stat3

Stephane Kontos, Jeffrey Alan Hubbell, Seung Tae Lee, Jungim Yun

We engineered an acellular biomimetic microenvironment to regulate stem cell fate and applied it to maintain mouse embryonic stem (ES) cell self-renewal. In the 3D environment formed using hydrogel scaffolds in which specific integrin ligation was provided ...

Elsevier Sci Ltd2012

The functional analysis of Lrig1 in the mouse cornea

Andrea Zaffalon

Regenerative medicine aims to recreate functional tissues in vitro for the regeneration of damaged organs and solve the dramatic problem of transplant rejection. Cornea integrity is primordial for our vision. Several therapies to regenerate healthy corneal ...

2011

Expansion of a VE-Cadherin+CD45+ population in the yolk sac upon Etv2 overexpression in the mouse embryo - Effects of BMP and Wnt signaling inhibition on the differentiation of a Flk1+ extraembryonic mesoderm in vitro model

Matteo Pluchinotta

The difficulty to find compatible donors for bone marrow transplantation makes the need for an alternative source of HSCs urgent. HSC derived from patient-specific iPS cells are ideal candidates for this purpose. Nevertheless, although HSCs are the best ch ...

2011

Effect of fluid flow shear stress on Mesenchymal Stem Cells(MSC) differentiation using a microfluidic device

Sohrab Emami Naeini

Mesenchymal Stem Cells (MSC) are multipotent stem cells that are predominantly obtained from the bone marrow. These cells have a high ability to differentiate into a multitude of cell types, which are very attractive for tissue engineering and cell therapy ...

2011

Artificial niche microarrays for probing single stem cell fate in high throughput

Matthias Lütolf, Stefan Kobel, Samy Gobaa, Andrea Negro

To understand the regulatory role of niches in maintaining stem-cell fate, multifactorial in vitro models are required. These systems should enable analysis of biochemical and biophysical niche effectors in a combinatorial fashion and in the context of a p ...

Nature Publishing Group2011

Biomolecule gradients on surface initiated graft polymers

Ruben Casanova

Controlling the fate of stem cells in vitro is a key challenge towards using these cells in clinical applications. Adult stem cells (ASC) are known to reside in complex microenvironments called niches in vivo. These niches regulate stem cell fate providing ...

2011

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