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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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Expression of ABCA4 in the retinal pigment epithelium and its implications for Stargardt macular degeneration.

TL;DR: It is found that ABCA4 is additionally present in the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) of mice at approximately 1% of its abundance in the neural retina, suggesting thatABCA4 in the RPE prevents photoreceptor degeneration in Abca4−/− mice and possibly in STGD1 patients.
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Neuronal replacement therapy: previous achievements and challenges ahead.

TL;DR: How important connectivity and circuitry aspects are for regenerative medicine, which is the focus of this review, and the impressive advances in neuronal replacement strategies and success from exogenous as well as endogenous cell sources are discussed.
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The Immunogenicity and Immune Tolerance of Pluripotent Stem Cell Derivatives

TL;DR: The mechanism underlying the immunogenicity of the pluripotent stem cells and recent progress in developing immune tolerance strategies of human pluripoline stem cell (hPSC)-derived allografts are discussed.
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Clinical Trial of Human Umbilical Cord Blood-Derived Stem Cells for the Treatment of Moderate-to-Severe Atopic Dermatitis: Phase I/IIa Studies

TL;DR: The first report to demonstrate a marked improvement of AD features with cell therapeutics is demonstrated, suggesting that the infusion of hUCB‐MSCs might be an effective therapy for patients with moderate‐to‐severe AD.
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Human embryonic and induced pluripotent stem cells in clinical trials.

TL;DR: The initial results from multiple clinical trials demonstrate that hESC-based therapies are safe and promising and there is a room for both h ESC and iPSC in the future clinical applications.
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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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