Connectivity and circuitry in a dish versus in a brain
In order to understand and find therapeutic strategies for neurological disorders, disease models that recapitulate the connectivity and circuitry of patients’ brain are needed. Owing to many limitations of animal disease models, in vitro neuronal models using patient-derived stem cells are currentl...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4456047/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26045718 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13195-015-0129-y |
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author | Chinchalongporn, Vorapin Koppensteiner, Peter Prè, Deborah Thangnipon, Wipawan Bilo, Leonilda Arancio, Ottavio |
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description | In order to understand and find therapeutic strategies for neurological disorders, disease models that recapitulate the connectivity and circuitry of patients’ brain are needed. Owing to many limitations of animal disease models, in vitro neuronal models using patient-derived stem cells are currently being developed. However, prior to employing neurons as a model in a dish, they need to be evaluated for their electrophysiological properties, including both passive and active membrane properties, dynamics of neurotransmitter release, and capacity to undergo synaptic plasticity. In this review, we survey recent attempts to study these issues in human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived neurons. Although progress has been made, there are still many hurdles to overcome before human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived neurons can fully recapitulate all of the above physiological properties of adult mature neurons. Moreover, proper integration of neurons into pre-existing circuitry still needs to be achieved. Nevertheless, in vitro neuronal stem cell-derived models hold great promise for clinical application in neurological diseases in the future. |
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spelling | pubmed-44560472015-06-05 Connectivity and circuitry in a dish versus in a brain Chinchalongporn, Vorapin Koppensteiner, Peter Prè, Deborah Thangnipon, Wipawan Bilo, Leonilda Arancio, Ottavio Alzheimers Res Ther Review In order to understand and find therapeutic strategies for neurological disorders, disease models that recapitulate the connectivity and circuitry of patients’ brain are needed. Owing to many limitations of animal disease models, in vitro neuronal models using patient-derived stem cells are currently being developed. However, prior to employing neurons as a model in a dish, they need to be evaluated for their electrophysiological properties, including both passive and active membrane properties, dynamics of neurotransmitter release, and capacity to undergo synaptic plasticity. In this review, we survey recent attempts to study these issues in human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived neurons. Although progress has been made, there are still many hurdles to overcome before human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived neurons can fully recapitulate all of the above physiological properties of adult mature neurons. Moreover, proper integration of neurons into pre-existing circuitry still needs to be achieved. Nevertheless, in vitro neuronal stem cell-derived models hold great promise for clinical application in neurological diseases in the future. BioMed Central 2015-06-04 /pmc/articles/PMC4456047/ /pubmed/26045718 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13195-015-0129-y Text en © Chinchalongporn et al.; licensee BioMed Central. 2015 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Review Chinchalongporn, Vorapin Koppensteiner, Peter Prè, Deborah Thangnipon, Wipawan Bilo, Leonilda Arancio, Ottavio Connectivity and circuitry in a dish versus in a brain |
title | Connectivity and circuitry in a dish versus in a brain |
title_full | Connectivity and circuitry in a dish versus in a brain |
title_fullStr | Connectivity and circuitry in a dish versus in a brain |
title_full_unstemmed | Connectivity and circuitry in a dish versus in a brain |
title_short | Connectivity and circuitry in a dish versus in a brain |
title_sort | connectivity and circuitry in a dish versus in a brain |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4456047/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26045718 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13195-015-0129-y |
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