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For your eyes only: Harnessing human embryonic stem cell-derived retinal pigment epithelial cells to improve impaired vision

Vision loss or impairment resulting from the degeneration of the retinal pigment epithelium and photoreceptor death affects millions worldwide. Recent exciting results from clinical studies of small numbers of patients treated with human embryonic stem cell-derived retinal pigment epithelial cells m...

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Autores principales: Hu, Jim, He, Tong-Chuan, Li, Fei
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Chongqing Medical University 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4725060/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26819964
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gendis.2015.07.002
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spelling pubmed-47250602016-01-25 For your eyes only: Harnessing human embryonic stem cell-derived retinal pigment epithelial cells to improve impaired vision Hu, Jim He, Tong-Chuan Li, Fei Genes Dis Article Vision loss or impairment resulting from the degeneration of the retinal pigment epithelium and photoreceptor death affects millions worldwide. Recent exciting results from clinical studies of small numbers of patients treated with human embryonic stem cell-derived retinal pigment epithelial cells may provide hope for affected individuals. Chongqing Medical University 2015-07-30 /pmc/articles/PMC4725060/ /pubmed/26819964 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gendis.2015.07.002 Text en Copyright © 2015, Chongqing Medical University. Production and hosting by Elsevier B.V. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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For your eyes only: Harnessing human embryonic stem cell-derived retinal pigment epithelial cells to improve impaired vision
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title_full For your eyes only: Harnessing human embryonic stem cell-derived retinal pigment epithelial cells to improve impaired vision
title_fullStr For your eyes only: Harnessing human embryonic stem cell-derived retinal pigment epithelial cells to improve impaired vision
title_full_unstemmed For your eyes only: Harnessing human embryonic stem cell-derived retinal pigment epithelial cells to improve impaired vision
title_short For your eyes only: Harnessing human embryonic stem cell-derived retinal pigment epithelial cells to improve impaired vision
title_sort for your eyes only: harnessing human embryonic stem cell-derived retinal pigment epithelial cells to improve impaired vision
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4725060/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26819964
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gendis.2015.07.002
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