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. 2021 Sep 16;12:725074. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2021.725074

TABLE 2.

Organoid cultures validated in domestic and wild animal species (Bourdon et al., 2021; Kar et al., 2021; Pain, 2021).

Group/Species Source tissues Disease modeling? References
Domestic
Canis lupus familiaris (Dog) Skin (Keratinocyte) Prostate gland Urinary bladder Kidney Intestine Liver N/A Prostate cancer Bladder cancer N/A N/A Copper storage disease Wiener et al., 2018,Usui et al., 2017,Elbadawy et al., 2019,Chen et al., 2019,Powell and Behnke, 2017; Chandra et al., 2019,Nantasanti et al., 2015
Felis catus (Cat) Intestine Liver Feline coronavirus (Tekes et al., 2020) Hepatic lipidosis/steatosis Powell and Behnke, 2017; Tekes et al., 2020,Kruitwagen et al., 2017; Haaker et al., 2020
Gallus gallus (Chicken) Intestine Protozoan (T. gondii) (Holthaus et al., 2021) Pierzchalska et al., 2017; Powell and Behnke, 2017; Panek et al., 2018; Pierzchalska et al., 2018; Acharya et al., 2020; Holthaus et al., 2021
Sus scrofa (Pig) Esophagus submucosal gland Intestine Rectum Testicular tissue N/A Lawsonia infection (Resende et al., 2020) Enteric coronavirus (Li et al., 2019a,b, 2020; Luo et al., 2020; Yin et al., 2020) Protozoan (T. gondii) (Holthaus et al., 2021) Crohn disease NA von Furstenberg et al., 2017,Koltes and Gabler, 2016; van der Hee et al., 2018; Li et al., 2019a,b, 2020; Liu et al., 2020; Resende et al., 2020; Yin et al., 2020,Adegbola et al., 2017,Sakib et al., 2019; Vermeulen et al., 2019
Bos Taurus (Cattle) Intestine mammary gland N/A N/A Hamilton et al., 2018; Derricott et al., 2019; Topfer et al., 2019,Martignani et al., 2018
Ovis aries (Sheep) Intestine pancreatic duct N/A Copper toxicity Powell and Behnke, 2017 Liu et al., 2020
Equus caballus (Horse) Intestine endometrium N/A N/A Powell and Behnke, 2017; Stewart et al., 2018,Thompson et al., 2020
Oryctolagus cuniculus (Rabbit) Intestine Rabbit calicivirus, but not productive Kardia et al., 2021
Wild
Rhinolophus sinicus (Horseshoe bat) Intestine SARS-CoV2/COVID-19 Zhou et al., 2020
Nine snake species Snake venom glands N/A Post et al., 2020
Dogfish shark Rectal gland N/A Schwarz et al., 2015