Roberta De Mori, Silvia Tardivo, Lidia Pollara, Silvia Clara Giliani, Eltahir Ali, Lucio Giordano, Vincenzo Leuzzi, Rita Fischetto, Blanca Gener, Santo Diprima, Marco J Morelli, Maria Cristina Monti, Virginie Sottile, Enza Maria Valente
Joubert syndrome (JS) is a recessively inherited congenital ataxia characterized by hypotonia, psychomotor delay, abnormal ocular movements, intellectual disability, and a peculiar cerebellar and brainstem malformation, the "molar tooth sign." Over 40 causative genes have been reported, all encoding for proteins implicated in the structure or functioning of the primary cilium, a subcellular organelle widely present in embryonic and adult tissues. In this paper, we developed an in vitro neuronal differentiation model using patient-derived induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), to evaluate possible neurodevelopmental defects in JS...
March 19, 2024: Cell and Tissue Research