2023
Modeling idiopathic autism in forebrain organoids reveals an imbalance of excitatory cortical neuron subtypes during early neurogenesis
Jourdon A, Wu F, Mariani J, Capauto D, Norton S, Tomasini L, Amiri A, Suvakov M, Schreiner J, Jang Y, Panda A, Nguyen C, Cummings E, Han G, Powell K, Szekely A, McPartland J, Pelphrey K, Chawarska K, Ventola P, Abyzov A, Vaccarino F. Modeling idiopathic autism in forebrain organoids reveals an imbalance of excitatory cortical neuron subtypes during early neurogenesis. Nature Neuroscience 2023, 26: 1505-1515. PMID: 37563294, PMCID: PMC10573709, DOI: 10.1038/s41593-023-01399-0.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsIdiopathic autism spectrum disorderCortical neuron subtypesAutism spectrum disorderEarly cortical developmentCortical organoidsCortical plateExcitatory neuronsCortical developmentRare formNeuron subtypesUnaffected fatherASD pathogenesisForebrain organoidsEarly neurogenesisRare variantsIdiopathic autismRisk genesTranscriptomic alterationsNeuronsProbandsSingle-cell transcriptomicsForebrain developmentSpectrum disorderTranscriptomic changesAlterations
2012
Modeling human cortical development in vitro using induced pluripotent stem cells
Mariani J, Simonini MV, Palejev D, Tomasini L, Coppola G, Szekely AM, Horvath TL, Vaccarino FM. Modeling human cortical development in vitro using induced pluripotent stem cells. Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences Of The United States Of America 2012, 109: 12770-12775. PMID: 22761314, PMCID: PMC3411972, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1202944109.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsHuman brain developmentHuman induced pluripotent stem cellsLayer-specific cortical neuronsBrain developmentHuman cerebral cortexHuman cortical developmentStem cellsPluripotent stem cellsCerebral cortexCortical neuronsCortical developmentCNS regionsRadial gliaCortical wallDorsal telencephalonEmbryonic telencephalonGene expression profilesInduced pluripotent stem cellsIntermediate progenitorsTelencephalic developmentTelencephalonExpression profilesTranscriptional programsCellsGlia