Benchmarking porcine pancreatic ductal organoids for drug screening applications.

ABSTRACT: Primary human pancreatic ductal organoids (HPDO) have emerged as a model to study pancreas biology and model disease like pancreatitis and pancreatic cancer. Yet, donor material availability, genetic variability and a lack of extensive benchmarking to healthy and disease pancreas limits the range of applications. To address this gap, we established porcine pancreatic ductal organoids (PPDO) as a system from a reliable, genetically defined and easily obtainable source to model pancreatic ductal/progenitor biology. We benchmarked PPDO to HPDO and primary porcine pancreas using single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-Seq). We observed no overt phenotypic differences in PPDO derived from distinct developmental stages using extensive proteomics profiling, with a WNT/basal cell signaling enriched popu

SUBMITTER: Karampelias C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12686538 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature