Three-dimensional stem cell models of mammalian gastrulation.

Autor: Turner DA; Institute of Life Course and Medical Sciences, William Henry Duncan Building, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK., Martinez Arias A; Systems Bioengineering, DCEXS, Universidad Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: BioEssays : news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology [Bioessays] 2024 Aug 28, pp. e2400123. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Aug 28.
DOI: 10.1002/bies.202400123
Abstrakt: Gastrulation is a key milestone in the development of an organism. It is a period of cell proliferation and coordinated cellular rearrangement, that creates an outline of the body plan. Our current understanding of mammalian gastrulation has been improved by embryo culture, but there are still many open questions that are difficult to address because of the intrauterine development of the embryos and the low number of specimens. In the case of humans, there are additional difficulties associated with technical and ethical challenges. Over the last few years, pluripotent stem cell models are being developed that have the potential to become useful tools to understand the mammalian gastrulation. Here we review these models with a special emphasis on gastruloids and provide a survey of the methods to produce them robustly, their uses, relationship to embryos, and their prospects as well as their limitations.
(© 2024 The Author(s). BioEssays published by Wiley Periodicals LLC.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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