Brain organoids aid drug screening for the Creutzfeldt–Jakob Disease
2021
National Institutes of Health, Hamilton, USA
Creutzfeldt–Jakob Disease (CJD) is a fatal, currently incurable, neurodegenerative disease. The search for candidate treatments would be greatly facilitated by the availability of human cell-based models of prion disease. The authors provide the first evidence that human cerebral organoids can be a viable model for CJD drug screening by using an established anti-prion compound, pentosan polysulfate (PPS). PPS delayed prion propagation in a prophylactic-like treatment paradigm and also alleviated propagation when applied following the establishment of infection in a therapeutic-like treatment paradigm. This study demonstrates the utility of cerebral organoids as the first human 3D cell culture system for screening therapeutic drug candidates for human prion diseases.
Human cerebral organoids as a therapeutic drug screening model for Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease
Cathryn L. Haigh
Added on: 06-21-2021
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