[HTML][HTML] Retinal stem cell transplantation: Balancing safety and potential

MS Singh, SS Park, TA Albini, MV Canto-Soler… - Progress in retinal and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Stem cell transplantation holds great promise as a potential treatment for currently incurable
retinal degenerative diseases that cause poor vision and blindness. Recently, safety data …

Cell culture models to study retinal pigment epithelium-related pathogenesis in age-related macular degeneration

K Bharti, AI den Hollander, A Lakkaraju, D Sinha… - Experimental eye …, 2022 - Elsevier
Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a disease that affects the macula–the central
part of the retina. It is a leading cause of irreversible vision loss in the elderly. AMD onset is …

Reproducibility and staging of 3D human retinal organoids across multiple pluripotent stem cell lines

EE Capowski, K Samimi, SJ Mayerl… - …, 2019 - journals.biologists.com
Numerous protocols have been described for producing neural retina from human
pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs), many of which are based on the culture of 3D organoids …

Clinical-grade stem cell–derived retinal pigment epithelium patch rescues retinal degeneration in rodents and pigs

R Sharma, V Khristov, A Rising, BS Jha… - Science translational …, 2019 - science.org
Considerable progress has been made in testing stem cell–derived retinal pigment
epithelium (RPE) as a potential therapy for age-related macular degeneration (AMD) …

Single-cell–resolution map of human retinal pigment epithelium helps discover subpopulations with differential disease sensitivity

D Ortolan, R Sharma, A Volkov… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Regional phenotypic and functional differences in the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE)
monolayer have been suggested to account for regional susceptibility in ocular diseases …

[HTML][HTML] Stem cell treatment of degenerative eye disease

B Mead, M Berry, A Logan, RAH Scott, W Leadbeater… - Stem cell …, 2015 - Elsevier
Stem cell therapies are being explored extensively as treatments for degenerative eye
disease, either for replacing lost neurons, restoring neural circuits or, based on more recent …

Stem cell based therapies for age-related macular degeneration: the promises and the challenges

H Nazari, L Zhang, D Zhu, GJ Chader… - Progress in retinal and …, 2015 - Elsevier
Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the leading cause of blindness among the
elderly in developed countries. AMD is classified as either neovascular (NV-AMD) or non …

Epithelial phenotype restoring drugs suppress macular degeneration phenotypes in an iPSC model

R Sharma, A George, M Nimmagadda… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD), a blinding eye disease, is characterized
by pathological protein-and lipid-rich drusen deposits underneath the retinal pigment …

[HTML][HTML] Primary cilium-mediated retinal pigment epithelium maturation is disrupted in ciliopathy patient cells

HL May-Simera, Q Wan, BS Jha, J Hartford, V Khristov… - Cell reports, 2018 - cell.com
Primary cilia are sensory organelles that protrude from the cell membrane. Defects in the
primary cilium cause ciliopathy disorders, with retinal degeneration as a prominent …

Cell-based therapy for degenerative retinal disease

M Zarbin - Trends in molecular medicine, 2016 - cell.com
Stem cell-derived retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) and photoreceptors (PRs) have restored
vision in preclinical models of human retinal degenerative disease. This review discusses …