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Developing an In Vitro Model of Zika Virus Infection in Cerebral Organoids

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Take a multiwell plate containing human cerebral organoids in a neural induction medium.

The organoids contain stem cells, radial glial cells, neural progenitor cells or NPCs, and neurons arranged in a radial pattern called a rosette, mimicking the developing brain.

Remove the medium and wash the organoids with a buffer.

Add Zika virus suspended in a buffer to the test wells and only buffer to the control wells.

Incubate, allowing the virus to bind to its receptors on the NPCs and become internalized.

Wash to remove non-internalized viruses, then add fresh neural induction medium and incubate.

The internalized viruses use the host cell machinery to form new viral particles.

Viral multiplication triggers a cellular stress response that induces apoptosis, reducing the number of NPCs available for organoid development.

Over time, the infected organoids exhibit reduced size and disrupted morphology, mirroring abnormal brain development in Zika virus-infected humans.

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Developing an In Vitro Model of Zika Virus Infection in Cerebral Organoids

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