Abstract
A three-dimensional (3D) tissue generated in vitro is a promising source to study developmental biology and regenerative medicine. In the last decade, Yoshiki Sasai’s group have developed a 3D stem cell culture technique known as SFEBq and demonstrated that embryonic stem cells (ESCs) have an ability to self-organize stratified neural tissue including 3D-retina. Furthermore, we have reported that ESC-derived retinal tissue can form an optic cup and a ciliary margin, which are unique structures in the developing retina. In this review, we focus on self-organizing culture technique to generate 3D-retina from human ESCs.
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Acknowledgments
This article is dedicated to late Dr. Yoshiki Sasai, a great mentor and gifted scientist who pioneered this field. A.K. is grateful to Drs. Koichi Saito, Toru Kimura, and the members of Sasai Lab and Eiraku Lab for fruitful discussion.
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A.K. is employed by Sumitomo Dainippon Pharma Co., Ltd. T.N. is employed by Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd. The authors are inventors on patent applications.
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Kuwahara, A., Nakano, T., Eiraku, M. (2017). Generation of a Three-Dimensional Retinal Tissue from Self-Organizing Human ESC Culture. In: Tsuji, T. (eds) Organ Regeneration. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1597. Humana Press, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-6949-4_2
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