Nature Communications (Oct 2022)

HBEGF-TNF induce a complex outer retinal pathology with photoreceptor cell extrusion in human organoids

  • Manuela Völkner,
  • Felix Wagner,
  • Lisa Maria Steinheuer,
  • Madalena Carido,
  • Thomas Kurth,
  • Ali Yazbeck,
  • Jana Schor,
  • Stephanie Wieneke,
  • Lynn J. A. Ebner,
  • Claudia Del Toro Runzer,
  • David Taborsky,
  • Katja Zoschke,
  • Marlen Vogt,
  • Sebastian Canzler,
  • Andreas Hermann,
  • Shahryar Khattak,
  • Jörg Hackermüller,
  • Mike O. Karl

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-33848-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 22

Abstract

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Complex neuropathologies, like macular degeneration, are common but incompletely understood. Here the authors report a complex human retina pathology organoid model induced by HBEGF-TNF, causing PIEZO1-mediated photoreceptor degeneration by cell extrusion.