[HTML][HTML] Making neurons, made easy: The use of Neurogenin-2 in neuronal differentiation

AJ Hulme, S Maksour, MSC Glover, S Miellet, M Dottori - Stem Cell Reports, 2022 - cell.com
Directed neuronal differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs), neural
progenitors, or fibroblasts using transcription factors has allowed for the rapid and highly …

SH-SY5Y-derived neurons: a human neuronal model system for investigating TAU sorting and neuronal subtype-specific TAU vulnerability

M Bell, H Zempel - Reviews in the Neurosciences, 2022 - degruyter.com
The microtubule-associated protein (MAP) TAU is mainly sorted into the axon of healthy
brain neurons. Somatodendritic missorting of TAU is a pathological hallmark of many …

Comparison of induced neurons reveals slower structural and functional maturation in humans than in apes

M Schörnig, X Ju, L Fast, S Ebert, A Weigert, S Kanton… - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
We generated induced excitatory neurons (iNeurons, iNs) from chimpanzee, bonobo, and
human stem cells by expressing the transcription factor neurogenin-2 (NGN2). Single-cell …

Neuronal STING activation in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal dementia

C Marques, A Held, K Dorfman, J Sung, C Song… - Acta …, 2024 - Springer
The stimulator of interferon genes (STING) pathway has been implicated in
neurodegenerative diseases, including Parkinson's disease and amyotrophic lateral …

Efficient derivation of excitatory and inhibitory neurons from human pluripotent stem cells stably expressing direct reprogramming factors

S Song, A Ashok, D Williams, M Kaufman… - Current …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
It is essential to generate isolated populations of human neuronal subtypes in order to
understand cell‐type‐specific roles in brain function and susceptibility to disease pathology …

A closer look to the evolution of neurons in humans and apes using stem-cell-derived model systems

M Schörnig, E Taverna - Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The cellular, molecular and functional comparison of neurons from closely related species is
crucial in evolutionary neurobiology. The access to living tissue and post-mortem brains of …

iPSC derived cerebral organoids as a model of tauopathy

CEJ Lovejoy - 2021 - discovery.ucl.ac.uk
Insoluble, hyper-phosphorylated aggregates of tau are a pathological hallmark of a range of
clinically diverse neurodegenerative diseases termed tauopathies, of which Alzheimer's …