Three-dimensional tissue-engineered human skeletal muscle model of Pompe disease

Abstract

Wang et al. describe the development of a 3D in vitro model of human skeletal muscle that recapitulates the pathophysiology of Pompe disease. They further define a Pompe disease-specific transcriptional signature, confirm its presence in the Pompe myobundles, and detect a partial reversal of the signature upon in vitro treatment of myobundles with rhGAA.