Congenital Pituitary Hypoplasia Model Demonstrates Hypothalamic OTX2 Regulation of Pituitary Progenitor Cells
The Journal of Clinical Investigation RESEARCH ARTICLE Congenital pituitary hypoplasia model demonstrates hypothalamic OTX2 regulation of pituitary progenitor cells Ryusaku Matsumoto,1,2,3 Hidetaka Suga,4 Takashi Aoi,2,3 Hironori Bando,1 Hidenori Fukuoka,5 Genzo Iguchi,5,6,7 Satoshi Narumi,8,9 Tomonobu Hasegawa,9 Keiko Muguruma,10,11 Wataru Ogawa,1 and Yutaka Takahashi1 1Division of Diabetes and Endocrinology, Department of Internal Medicine, and 2Department of iPS cell Applications, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan. 3Department of Advanced Medical Science, Kobe University Graduate School of Science, Technology, and Innovation, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan. 4Department of Diabetes and Endocrinology, Nagoya University Hospital, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan. 5Department of Diabetes and Endocrinology, Kobe University Hospital, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan. 6Medical Center for Student Health, Kobe University, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan. 7Department of Biosignal Pathophysiology, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan. 8Department of Molecular Endocrinology, National Research Institute for Child Health and Development, Tokyo, Japan. 9Department of Pediatrics, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan. 10Laboratory for Cell Asymmetry, RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan. 11Department of iPS Cell Applied Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Kansai Medical University, Hirakata, Osaka, Japan. Pituitary develops from oral ectoderm in contact with adjacent ventral hypothalamus. Impairment in this process results in congenital pituitary hypoplasia (CPH); however, there have been no human disease models for CPH thus far, prohibiting the elucidation of the underlying mechanisms. In this study, we established a disease model of CPH using patient-derived induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) and 3D organoid technique, in which oral ectoderm and hypothalamus develop simultaneously.
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