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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2024 Jul 11.
Published in final edited form as: Biodes Manuf. 2023 Oct 3;6(6):646–660. doi: 10.1007/s42242-023-00255-1

Table 1.

Typical cell sources and ECMs used for establishing human lung organoid cultures.

Human lung
organoid
Cell source ECM Reference
Airway and bronchial organoid Solid human lung tissue Matrigel [Zhou 2018, Sachs 2019]
Human lung fibroblasts (HLF) Matrigel [Tan 2017]
Human lung microvascular lung endothelial cells (HMVEC-L)
Human bronchial epithelial cells (NHBEs)
NHBEs Matrigel [Sano 2022]
Human bronchial epithelial cells (hBEpCs) N.A. [Fang 2021]
Alveolar organoid Human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) Matrigel [Han 2021, Han 2022]
Induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) Matrigel [Tiwari 2021]
Immortalized human alveolar epithelial cells Matrigel [Tran 2022b]
Bronchioalveolar organoid Human small airway stem cells Matrigel, collagen I [Lamers 2021]