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Human embryonic stem cell-derived retinal pigment epithelium in patients with age-related macular degeneration and Stargardt's macular dystrophy: follow-up of two open-label phase 1/2 studies

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The results suggest that hESC-derived cells could provide a potentially safe new source of cells for the treatment of various unmet medical disorders requiring tissue repair or replacement.
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This article is published in The Lancet.The article was published on 2015-02-07. It has received 990 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Macular dystrophy & Stargardt disease.

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Progress of clinical therapies for dry age-related macular degeneration.

TL;DR: The therapies which have reached clinical trial for treatment of dry AMD were reviewed and the status and future directions of therapeutics for this debilitating condition were assessed.
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Pluripotent Stem Cells as Models of Retina Development.

TL;DR: The versatility of PSC retinal differentiation systems in investigating specific developmental time points that are difficult to assess with classic developmental model systems as well as the potential for efficient screening of factors involved in regulating photoreceptor differentiation are discussed.
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Subretinal versus intravitreal administration of human CD34+ bone marrow-derived stem cells in a rat model of inherited retinal degeneration.

TL;DR: Both subretinal and intravitreal injection of human CD34+ BMSCs can provide functional rescue of degenerating retina, although the effects were attenuated over time in this rat model and suggest that CD34- cells may have therapeutic potential in retinal degeneration.
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Survival of Transplanted Human Embryonic Stem Cell-Derived Retinal Pigment Epithelial Cells in a Human Recipient for 22 Months.

TL;DR: Results following the subretinal transplant of human embryonic stem cell–derived retinal pigment epithelial cells (hES-RPE) show that pigmentation developed in the area of hES- RPE injection in 13 of 18 patients in the US trial and in 3 of 4 patients inThe Korean trial.
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A technique for removing tumourigenic pluripotent stem cells using rBC2LCN lectin.

TL;DR: A technique using rBC2LCN to remove pluripotent cells from a heterogeneous population to reduce the chance of teratoma formation is reported here and could be a practical option for laboratory use and industrialisation of regenerative medicine using human pluripoline stem cells.
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Induction of Pluripotent Stem Cells from Adult Human Fibroblasts by Defined Factors

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that iPS cells can be generated from adult human fibroblasts with the same four factors: Oct3/4, Sox2, Klf4, and c-Myc.
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Embryonic Stem Cell Lines Derived from Human Blastocysts

TL;DR: Human blastocyst-derived, pluripotent cell lines are described that have normal karyotypes, express high levels of telomerase activity, and express cell surface markers that characterize primate embryonic stem cells but do not characterize other early lineages.
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Establishment in culture of pluripotential cells from mouse embryos

TL;DR: The establishment in tissue culture of pluripotent cell lines which have been isolated directly from in vitro cultures of mouse blastocysts are reported, able to differentiate either in vitro or after innoculation into a mouse as a tumour in vivo.
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The Retinal Pigment Epithelium in Visual Function

TL;DR: This review summarizes the current knowledge of RPE functions and describes how failure of these functions causes loss of visual function.
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