Sentences with phrase «surface of the organoids»

According to his unpublished findings, when he puts glioblastoma cells from patients into lab dishes with brain organoids, the cells attach to the surface of the organoids, burrow into them, and within 24 to 48 hours grow into a mass that eventually «looks exactly like what happened in the patient's own brain,» Fine said.

Not exact matches

These «organoids» can develop as many as six layers of cerebral cortex — the outer surface of the brain.

In the organoids, the scientists found such mechanical instability in two places: the cytoskeleton — the internal skeleton — of the cells in the center of the organoid contracted, and the nuclei of the cells near the surface expanded.

These organoids form all of the cell types present in human intestine, but they grow as cysts surrounded by thick extracellular matrix gels with their «apical» cell surface (which is normally exposed to the content of the gut) facing an enclosed lumen.

These 2D cultures also abolish the need for intraluminal microinjection of single organoids and facilitate studies of host - microbe or virus interactions or the action of microbial enterotoxins because the luminal surface is fully exposed to the mucosal medium (22,23).

In the Intestine Chip, the epithelium forms villi - like projections lined by polarized epithelial cells that undergo multi-lineage differentiation similar to that of intestinal organoids, however, these cells expose their apical surfaces to an open lumen and interface with endothelium.