A distal lung organoid model to study interstitial lung disease, viral infection and human lung development.

ABSTRACT: Organoids have been an exciting advancement in stem cell research. Here we describe a strategy for directed differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells into distal lung organoids. This protocol recapitulates lung development by sequentially specifying human pluripotent stem cells to definitive endoderm, anterior foregut endoderm, ventral anterior foregut endoderm, lung bud organoids and finally lung organoids. The organoids take ~40 d to generate and can be maintained more than 180 d, while progressively maturing up to a stage consistent with the second trimester of human gestation. They are unique because of their branching morphology, the near absence of non-lung endodermal lineages, presence of mesenchyme and capacity to recapitulate interstitial lung diseases. This protocol can be

SUBMITTER: Matkovic Leko I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11486529 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature