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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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Individual capacity for repair of DNA damage and potential uses of stem cell lines for clinical applications: a matter of (genomic) integrity

TL;DR: The available data about the role of individual capacity for DNA damage repair in different human stem cell types and the potential adverse effects that may occur with the use of cell preparations with inferior repair capacity are reviewed.
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Cell Therapy Replacement for Retinal and Optic Nerve Diseases: Cell Sources, Clinical Trials and Challenges

TL;DR: Stem/progenitor cell therapies for retinal diseases still have some drawbacks, such as the inhibition of proliferation and/or differentiation in vitro and the limited longterm survival and functioning of grafts in vivo, and therapeutics assisted by gene techniques, neuroprotective compounds and artificial devices can be applied to fulfil clinical needs.
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Spontaneous Feedforward Connectivity in Electrically Stimulated Retinal Degeneration Mice

TL;DR: This work used rd10 mice as a model to study brain connectivity in the human retinal degeneration disease, retinitis pigmentosa, and found that increase in feedforward brain connectivity was significantly maintained even after the end of the stimulation period.
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Cell Transplantation Therapy for Glaucoma

TL;DR: The current status of cell transplantation in glaucoma therapy is summarized, and accumulating evidence shows that transplanted cells can secrete and release neuroprotective factors to prevent or stop disease progression, and donor cells may replace lost cells and restore function.
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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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