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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Feb 5.
Published in final edited form as: Nat Rev Mater. 2019 Aug 16;4(9):606–622. doi: 10.1038/s41578-019-0129-9

Table 1 |.

Materials systems for organoids

Material class Material Organoid tissue Cell origin Refs
Decellularized tissues EHS matrix Intestine Murine Lgr5+ cells 33
Brain Human ESCs and iPSCs 41
Prostrate Murine prostate epithelial cells 256
Gastric Human ESCs and iPSCs 55
Brain (midbrain-like) Human ESCs and iPSCs 257
Lung Human iPSCs 258
Decellularized liver Liver HUVECs and human fetal liver cells 259
Decellularized lung Lung Human ESCs and iPSCs 37
Decellularized intestine Intestine Human iPSCs 260
Natural biopolymers Collagen Intestine Murine intestinal tissue 34,162
Intestine Human intestinal epithelium 161
Collagen vitrigel Intestine Human colon carcinoma 163
Cell-Mate3D (hyaluronic acid, chitosan and dextrose) Brain Human iPSCs 164
Alginate Intestine Human iPSCs 172
Alginate beads Pulmonary Human fetal lung fibroblasts, HUVECS, iPSCs 165
Tubular silk sponge Intestine Human jejunum tissue 173
Hyaluronic acid Kidney Murine kidney tissue 261
Fibrin-laminin Intestine, pancreas, liver Murine intestinal tissue, human biopsy tissue 262
Protein-engineered materials Elastin-like protein Intestine Murine intestinal tissue 178
Synthetic polymers PEG and natural biopolymers Intestine Isolated murine crypts/ intestinal stem cells 66
Brain (neural-tube-like) Mouse ESCs 26
PEG Pancreas Murine embryonic pancreatic progenitor cells 263
PEG-4MAL Intestine Human iPSCs 67
Amikagel Pancreatic islets Human ESCs 179
Cell foam (tantalum precipitate) Thymus Murine thymic stromal cells and human bone-marrow-derived progenitor cells 40
PGA and PLLA Intestine Human iPSCs 247

EHS, Engelbreth-Holm-Swarm; ESCs, embryonic stem cells; HUVECs, human umbilical vein endothelial cells; iPSCs, induced pluripotent stem cells; Lgr5+, leucine-rich repeat-containing G-protein-coupled receptor-5-positive; PEG, polyethylene glycol; PEG-4MAL, PEG with four thiol-reactive maleimides; PGA, polyglycolic acid; PLLA, poly-L-lactic acid.