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In vitro Modeling of the Human Dopaminergic System using spatially arranged ventral Midbrain-Striatum-Cortex Assembloids [scRNAseq]

ABSTRACT: Dopaminergic neurons located in the ventral Midbrain (vMid) innervate the striatum and cortex and are involved in movement control and reward-related cognition. Degeneration of dopaminergic neurons causes Parkinson’s disease (PD), while their over-activation is implicated in addiction. Thus, modeling the dopaminergic system is of broad relevance for disease research and drug discovery, although limited availability of patient material and inherent differences in animal model systems are restricting the study of distinctive human specific features such as development and neurodegeneration. Here, we show that spatially arranged assembloids can recapitulate dopaminergic innervation of striatum and cortex and offer methods for their use in cell replacement therapy and addiction research. We describe improved protocols for growing vMid, striatal and cortical organoids and use custom embedding molds to fuse them in a linear manner. Linear assembloids form functional long-range dopaminergic connections with striatal and cortical tissues that can release dopamine. We demonstrate that vMid grafts derived from hPSCs for cell replacement therapy of PD can integrate into the tissue and structurally mature. Additionally, we demonstrate that our model can be used to study dopaminergic circuit perturbations in the example of chronic cocaine treatment which causes morphological, functional and transcriptional changes that remained altered even after drug withdrawal. Our method opens new avenues for dopaminergic cell replacement therapy and the analysis of drugs affecting the dopaminergic system, directly in a human system.

ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens

PROVIDER: GSE219245 | GEO | 2023/09/20

REPOSITORIES: GEO

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