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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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Stem cell therapy in ocular pathologies in the past 20 years.

TL;DR: Stem cell therapies are successfully used in various fields of medicine, such as genetic research, which permitted and enhanced the differentiation of stem cells, and the possibility of exploiting stem cells from other districts for the treatment of ophthalmic diseases, renders this topic fascinating as mentioned in this paper.
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Enriched Cultures of Retinal Cells From BJNhem20 Human Embryonic Stem Cell Line of Indian Origin.

TL;DR: This study confirms the retinal differentiation potential of BJNhem20 cells and describes an optimized protocol to generate enriched populations of neuro-retinal and RPE cells.
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The Impact of Acquired Genetic Abnormalities on the Clinical Translation of Human Pluripotent Stem Cells.

TL;DR: A review of the current knowledge on how these aberrations influence the cell state and how this may impact the future of research and the cells' clinical potential is presented in this article.
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Clinicopathologic Correlations of Retinal Membranes Associated With Intravitreal ‘Stem Cell’ Injections

TL;DR: The histologic findings of a subretinal band and epiretinal membrane excised from two patients who developed retinal detachments (RDs) after non-U.S. Food and Drug Administration-regulated intravitreal "stem cell" injections are reported, suggesting that the "stem cells" may cause RDs by differentiation into myofibroblasts that cause tractional membranes.
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The Tumorigenicity of Multipotent Adult Germline Stem Cells Transplanted into the Heart Is Affected by Natural Killer Cells and by Cyclosporine A Independent of Its Immunosuppressive Effects.

TL;DR: A higher teratoma formation rate is observed when undifferentiated so-called multipotent adult germline stem cells (maGSCs) were transplanted into the heart of T, B, and natural killer (NK) cell-deficient RAG2/−γc−/− mice.
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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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