Deciphering and reconstitution of positional information in the human brain development
Open Access
- 1 September 2021
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Cell Regeneration
- Vol. 10 (1), 1-13
- https://doi.org/10.1186/s13619-021-00091-7
Abstract
Organoid has become a novel in vitro model to research human development and relevant disorders in recent years. With many improvements on the culture protocols, current brain organoids could self-organize into a complicated three-dimensional organization that mimics most of the features of the real human brain at the molecular, cellular, and further physiological level. However, lacking positional information, an important characteristic conveyed by gradients of signaling molecules called morphogens, leads to the deficiency of spatiotemporally regulated cell arrangements and cell–cell interactions in the brain organoid development. In this review, we will overview the role of morphogen both in the vertebrate neural development in vivo as well as the brain organoid culture in vitro, the strategies to apply morphogen concentration gradients in the organoid system and future perspectives of the brain organoid technology.This publication has 131 references indexed in Scilit:
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