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Isolation and Culture of Human-Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Cerebral Organoid Cells

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Induced Pluripotent Stem (iPS) Cells

Part of the book series: Methods in Molecular Biology ((MIMB,volume 2454))

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The advent of human-induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC)-derived three-dimensional (3D) cerebral organoids provides unprecedented opportunities of modeling human brains in states of health and disorder. Emerging data supports that cerebral organoids allow for more relevant in vitro systems for studying the human brain system and diseases than the current widely used 2D monolayer cell culture. Thus, the ability to isolate, culture, and maintain human brain cells from cerebral organoids is highly needed, particularly for studies on organoid-derived cell-type-specific signaling and their electrophysiological properties. Here we present a protocol to isolate and culture brain cells from 2-month human iPSC-derived cerebral organoids. The dissociation and plating of cells from organoids takes 3–4 h. The dissociated cells can be maintained in culture for up to at least 3 weeks. Some cells expressed the neuron-specific marker microtubule-associated protein 2 and exhibited spontaneous action potentials.

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This work was supported by the National Institute of Health R01 GM112696 (to X. Bai).

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  1. Department of Cell Biology, Neurobiology and Anatomy, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA

    Yasheng Yan, Thiago Arzua, Sarah Logan & Xiaowen Bai

  2. Department of Physiology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA

    Thiago Arzua & Sarah Logan

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Yan, Y., Arzua, T., Logan, S., Bai, X. (2020). Isolation and Culture of Human-Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Cerebral Organoid Cells. In: Nagy, A., Turksen, K. (eds) Induced Pluripotent Stem (iPS) Cells. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 2454. Humana, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/7651_2020_328

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