Organoids Nantes
A unique and privileged access to all the "organoid" expertise of the laboratories and platforms of the Nantes site
Organoids are cell models that are intermediate between monolayer cell cultures and in vivo models. They are developed thanks to advances in recent decades in stem cell culture and differentiation, as well as 3D culture. These three-dimensional models have the advantage of being produced from cells of the same species, unlike animal models. Using them makes it possible to get closer to physiological and/or pathophysiological conditions in order to increase the knowledge of tissue functioning, in the presence or absence of external molecules.
These fast-growing technologies meet the requirement to reduce animal models according to the 3R principle (FC3R)
Contacts
infrastructure-organoides@univ-nantes.fr
Maxime Mahé, scientific manager – researcher UMR1235 TENS
Laurent David, deputy scientific officer – iPSCDTC platform scientific manager
Skills
The ION research infrastructure offers organoid models to the scientific community and health companies. To do this, ION brings together the expertise of Nantes laboratories around the use and study of several types of organoids (e.g. organ avatars) representing all the organs and diseases studied presented in the diagram below.
ORGANOIDS PRODUCTION
The players in the Nantes area have pooled their expertise to offer you an integrated multi-organ study offer.
Brain
Thymus
Lung / Mesothelium
Heart
Liver
Intestine / Enteric nervous system / Digestive system
Organs for which at least one team from Nantes has developed an organoid or spheroid or tumoroid
Retina
Breast / Breast gland
Intervertebral disc / Bone sarcoma
Endometrium / Placenta / Trophoblast / Blastocyst
Skeletal muscle
ORGANOIDS ANALYSIS
The teams at the Nantes platforms are also able to characterize the generated 3D structures.
Imaging Transcriptomic Cytometry Biomechanics Cellular models
MicroPICell platform GenoA platform Cytocell platform Bio3 platform Therassay platform
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HIO/Intestin ©Maxime Mahé Blastocyste ©Laurent David MCTS/mésothélium ©Christophe Blanquart Rhéomètre ©PF Bio3
Learn more
- All the actors in the “Pays de la Loire” and in “Bretagne” developing or studying organoids are listed on a map available on the OuestOïd page (projet fédérateur Biogenouest)
- Learn more about organoids - Demystification: Understanding Organoids and Their Applications (in french)
- The TENS laboratory popularized its work on intestinal organoids during an O'tablo session.