Modeling amyloid beta and tau pathology in human cerebral organoids.

ABSTRACT: The typical abnormalities observed in the brain of Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients include synaptic alterations, neuronal death, brain inflammation, and the accumulation of protein aggregates in the form of amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles. Despite the development of many animal and in vitro models for AD, there is a lack of an experimental approach that fully recapitulates essential aspects of the disease in human cells. Here, we report the generation of a new model to study AD, consisting of cerebral organoids (COs) produced from human-induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs). Under our experimental conditions, COs grow to form three-dimensional (3D) structures containing neural areas with cortical-like organization. Analysis of COs by histological and biochemical methods reve

SUBMITTER: Gonzalez C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6594704 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature