Human neuronal networks on micro-electrode arrays are a highly robust tool to study disease-specific genotype-phenotype correlations in vitro

Britt Mossink, Anouk H.A. Verboven, Eline J.H. van Hugte, Teun M. Klein Gunnewiek, Giulia Parodi, Katrin Linda, Chantal Schoenmaker, Tjitske Kleefstra, Tamas Kozicz, Hans van Bokhoven, Dirk Schubert, Nael Nadif Kasri, Monica Frega*

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Abstract

Micro-electrode arrays (MEAs) are increasingly used to characterize neuronal network activity of human induced pluripotent stem cell (hiPSC)-derived neurons. Despite their gain in popularity, MEA recordings from hiPSC-derived neuronal networks are not always used to their full potential in respect to experimental design, execution, and data analysis. Therefore, we benchmarked the robustness of MEA-derived neuronal activity patterns from ten healthy individual control lines, and uncover comparable network phenotypes. To achieve standardization, we provide recommendations on experimental design and analysis. With such standardization, MEAs can be used as a reliable platform to distinguish (disease-specific) network phenotypes. In conclusion, we show that MEAs are a powerful and robust tool to uncover functional neuronal network phenotypes from hiPSC-derived neuronal networks, and provide an important resource to advance the hiPSC field toward the use of MEAs for disease phenotyping and drug discovery.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)2182-2196
Number of pages15
JournalStem cell reports
Volume16
Issue number9
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 14 Sep 2021

Keywords

  • human induced pluripotent stem cells
  • micro-electrode arrays
  • neuronal differentiation
  • neuronal network activity
  • UT-Gold-D

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