We describe a method to generate human motor units in commercially available microfluidic devices by co-culturing human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived motor neurons with human primary mesoangioblast-derived myotubes resulting in the formation of functionally active neuromuscular junctions.
Stoklund Dittlau, K., Krasnow, E. N., Fumagalli, L., Vandoorne, T., Baatsen, P., Kerstens, A., Giacomazzi, G., Pavie, B., Rossaert, E., Beckers, J., Sampaolesi, M., Van Damme, P., Van Den Bosch, L. Generation of Human Motor Units with Functional Neuromuscular Junctions in Microfluidic Devices. J. Vis. Exp. (175), e62959, doi:10.3791/62959 (2021).