Establishment and Genetic Manipulation of Murine Hepatocyte OrganoidsJiabei Lian *1,2, Xinyuan Meng *1,3, Xiaohui Zhang 1,2, Huili Hu 1,2
1Key Laboratory of Experimental Teratology, Ministry of Education, Institute of Molecular Medicine and Genetics, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Research Center, Cheeloo College of Medicine, Shandong University, 2The Research Center of Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine, Shandong University Cheeloo Medical College, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Shandong University
A long-term ex vitro 3D organoid culture system was established from mouse hepatocytes. These organoids can be passaged and genetically manipulated by lentivirus infection of shRNA/ectopic construction, siRNA transfection and CRISPR-Cas9 engineering.