Nature Communications (Jun 2022)

Salivary gland organoid culture maintains distinct glandular properties of murine and human major salivary glands

  • Yeo-Jun Yoon,
  • Donghyun Kim,
  • Kwon Yong Tak,
  • Seungyeon Hwang,
  • Jisun Kim,
  • Nam Suk Sim,
  • Jae-Min Cho,
  • Dojin Choi,
  • Yongmi Ji,
  • Junho K. Hur,
  • Hyunki Kim,
  • Jong-Eun Park,
  • Jae-Yol Lim

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-30934-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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The long-term maintenance of diverse salivary gland cells remains challenging. Here the authors establish a protocol for long-term maintenance of murine and human salivary gland organoids exhibiting gland-specific gene expression, gland functions, and cellular diversity confirmed by scRNA-seq.