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Restoring Vision: Where are We with Stem Cells?
- Source :
- Current Ophthalmology Reports. 3:192-199
- Publication Year :
- 2015
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2015.
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Abstract
- Photoreceptor degeneration leads to permanent visual loss due to the lack of regenerative mechanisms in the mammalian retina. This can occur due to defects in the photoreceptors as seen in certain forms of retinitis pigmentosa or secondary to retinal pigment epithelium defects as seen in certain forms of Leber congenital amaurosis and age-related macular degeneration. In this short review, we will cover some recent work on promoting retinal repair either by using endogenous cells in the retina or through cell replacement therapy.
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
Retina
Gene therapy of the human retina
Retinal pigment epithelium
genetic structures
business.industry
Retinal
Macular degeneration
medicine.disease
eye diseases
Ophthalmology
chemistry.chemical_compound
medicine.anatomical_structure
chemistry
Retinitis pigmentosa
medicine
sense organs
Stem cell
business
Neuroscience
Retinal regeneration
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 21674868
- Volume :
- 3
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Current Ophthalmology Reports
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........4ba5b7fc0487a07156d6744e4c763f45