Although ulcerative colitis (UC) is a major type of inflammatory bowel disease, attempts to model it fully have fallen short. Here the authors use patient-derived iPS cells to develop a UC organoid model that recapitulates disease histological and functional features, and confirm the role of CXCL8/CXCR1 in pathogenesis.
- Samaneh K. Sarvestani
- Steven Signs
- Emina H. Huang
