Modeling human limb skeletal development using human pluripotent stem cell-derived skeletal assembloids [ATAC-seq]
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Project description:Modeling human limb skeletal development using human pluripotent stem cell-derived skeletal assembloids [bulkRNA-seq]
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Project description:Despite recent advances in pluripotent stem cell-based approaches to induce skeletal cells, recapitulating human limb skeletal development in terms of structure and longitudinally oriented growth remains an unresolved challenge. Here, we report a method to differentiate human pluripotent stem cells into region-specific skeletal organoids harboring GDF5+PRG4+ interzone/articular chondrocyte progenitors (IZ/ACPs) and SP7+ growth plate chondrocytes (GPCs) via PRRX1⁺ limb-bud mesenchymal cells. Comparative analysis demonstrated marked similarities of IZ/ACP and GPC organoids to the human embryonic limb, and graft fate and regenerative capacity in vivo were further characterized. We also mimicked the limb skeletal developmental process in a spatially structured manner by vertically positioning two IZ/ACP organoids at both ends of a GPC organoid to generate a human skeletal assembloid. Notably, this human skeletal assembloid recapitulated endochondral ossification with longitudinal skeletal growth upon transplantation. In summary, our study provides a novel research platform for human limb skeletal development and disease.
2025-01-26 | GSE288045 | GEO
Project description:Despite recent advances in pluripotent stem cell-based approaches to induce skeletal cells, recapitulating human limb skeletal development in terms of structure and longitudinally oriented growth remains an unresolved challenge. Here, we report a method to differentiate human pluripotent stem cells into region-specific skeletal organoids harboring GDF5+PRG4+ interzone/articular chondrocyte progenitors (IZ/ACPs) and SP7+ growth plate chondrocytes (GPCs) via PRRX1⁺ limb-bud mesenchymal cells. Comparative analysis demonstrated marked similarities of IZ/ACP and GPC organoids to the human embryonic limb, and graft fate and regenerative capacity in vivo were further characterized. We also mimicked the limb skeletal developmental process in a spatially structured manner by vertically positioning two IZ/ACP organoids at both ends of a GPC organoid to generate a human skeletal assembloid. Notably, this human skeletal assembloid recapitulated endochondral ossification with longitudinal skeletal growth upon transplantation. In summary, our study provides a novel research platform for human limb skeletal development and disease.
2025-01-26 | GSE288044 | GEO
Project description:Despite recent advances in pluripotent stem cell-based approaches to induce skeletal cells, recapitulating human limb skeletal development in terms of structure and longitudinally oriented growth remains an unresolved challenge. Here, we report a method to differentiate human pluripotent stem cells into region-specific skeletal organoids harboring GDF5+PRG4+ interzone/articular chondrocyte progenitors (IZ/ACPs) and SP7+ growth plate chondrocytes (GPCs) via PRRX1⁺ limb-bud mesenchymal cells. Comparative analysis demonstrated marked similarities of IZ/ACP and GPC organoids to the human embryonic limb, and graft fate and regenerative capacity in vivo were further characterized. We also mimicked the limb skeletal developmental process in a spatially structured manner by vertically positioning two IZ/ACP organoids at both ends of a GPC organoid to generate a human skeletal assembloid. Notably, this human skeletal assembloid recapitulated endochondral ossification with longitudinal skeletal growth upon transplantation. In summary, our study provides a novel research platform for human limb skeletal development and disease.
2025-01-26 | GSE288042 | GEO
Project description:Despite recent advances in pluripotent stem cell-based approaches to induce skeletal cells, recapitulating human limb skeletal development in terms of structure and longitudinally oriented growth remains an unresolved challenge. Here, we report a method to differentiate human pluripotent stem cells into region-specific skeletal organoids harboring GDF5+PRG4+ interzone/articular chondrocyte progenitors (IZ/ACPs) and SP7+ growth plate chondrocytes (GPCs) via PRRX1⁺ limb-bud mesenchymal cells. Comparative analysis demonstrated marked similarities of IZ/ACP and GPC organoids to the human embryonic limb, and graft fate and regenerative capacity in vivo were further characterized. We also mimicked the limb skeletal developmental process in a spatially structured manner by vertically positioning two IZ/ACP organoids at both ends of a GPC organoid to generate a human skeletal assembloid. Notably, this human skeletal assembloid recapitulated endochondral ossification with longitudinal skeletal growth upon transplantation. In summary, our study provides a novel research platform for human limb skeletal development and disease.
2025-01-26 | GSE288046 | GEO
Project description: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.
2023-09-20 | GSE219246 | GEO
Project description: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.
2023-09-20 | GSE219245 | GEO
Project description:Parkinson’s disease, an aging-associated neurodegenerative disorder, is characterised by nigrostriatal pathway dysfunction caused by the gradual loss of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra pars compacta of the midbrain. Human in vitro models are enabling the study of the dopaminergic neurons’ loss, but not the dysregulation within the dopaminergic network in the nigrostriatal pathway. Additionally, these models do not incorporate aging characteristics which potentially contribute to the development of Parkinson’s disease. Here we present a nigrostriatal pathway model based on midbrain-striatum assembloids with inducible aging. We show that these assembloids can develop characteristics of the nigrostriatal connectivity, with catecholamine release from the midbrain to the striatum and synapse formation between midbrain and striatal neurons. Moreover, Progerin-overexpressing assembloids acquire aging traits that lead to early neurodegenerative phenotypes. This model shall help to reveal the contribution of aging as well as nigrostriatal connectivity to the onset and progression of Parkinson’s disease.
2023-10-28 | GSE241631 | GEO