Human cerebral organoids—a new tool for clinical neurology research

OL Eichmüller, JA Knoblich - Nature Reviews Neurology, 2022 - nature.com
The current understanding of neurological diseases is derived mostly from direct analysis of
patients and from animal models of disease. However, most patient studies do not capture …

Hereditary spastic paraplegia: Genetic heterogeneity and common pathways

E Panza, A Meyyazhagan, A Orlacchio - Experimental Neurology, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Hereditary Spastic Paraplegias (HSPs) are a heterogeneous group of disease,
mainly characterized by progressive spasticity and weakness of the lower limbs resulting …

Innovations in 3D tissue models of human brain physiology and diseases

ML Lovett, TJF Nieland, YTL Dingle… - Advanced functional …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract 3D laboratory tissue cultures have emerged as an alternative to traditional 2D
culture systems that do not recapitulate native cell behavior. The discrepancy between in …

[HTML][HTML] Region specific brain organoids to study neurodevelopmental disorders

PJ Susaimanickam, FR Kiral… - International Journal of …, 2022 - synapse.koreamed.org
Region specific brain organoids are brain organoids derived by patterning protocols using
extrinsic signals as opposed to cerebral organoids obtained by self-patterning. The main …

Modeling neurological disorders using brain organoids

DY Zhang, H Song, G Ming - Seminars in cell & developmental biology, 2021 - Elsevier
Neurological disorders are challenging to study given the complexity and species-specific
features of the organ system. Brain organoids are three dimensional structured aggregates …

[HTML][HTML] Current knowledge of endolysosomal and autophagy defects in hereditary spastic paraplegia

L Toupenet Marchesi, M Leblanc, G Stevanin - Cells, 2021 - mdpi.com
Hereditary spastic paraplegia (HSP) refers to a group of neurological disorders involving the
degeneration of motor neurons. Due to their clinical and genetic heterogeneity, finding …

Lipids in the physiopathology of hereditary spastic paraplegias

F Darios, F Mochel, G Stevanin - Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Hereditary spastic paraplegias (HSP) are a group of neurodegenerative diseases sharing
spasticity in lower limbs as common symptom. There is a large clinical variability in the …

Pluripotent stem cells as a preclinical cellular model for studying hereditary spastic paraplegias

D Damiani, M Baggiani, S Della Vecchia… - International Journal of …, 2024 - mdpi.com
Hereditary spastic paraplegias (HSPs) comprise a family of degenerative diseases mostly
hitting descending axons of corticospinal neurons. Depending on the gene and mutation …

[HTML][HTML] Brain organoids: filling the need for a human model of neurological disorder

P Jalink, M Caiazzo - Biology, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary This review article describes an overview of the developed advanced
neural in vitro systems and the discovery of brain organoids including the recently …

Janus-faced spatacsin (SPG11): involvement in neurodevelopment and multisystem neurodegeneration

T Pozner, M Regensburger, T Engelhorn, J Winkler… - Brain, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Hereditary spastic paraplegia (HSP) is a heterogeneous group of rare motor neuron
disorders characterized by progressive weakness and spasticity of the lower limbs. HSP …