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ArticleJournal of visualized experiments : JoVE2021

Subretinal Transplantation of Human Embryonic Stem Cell-Derived Retinal Tissue in a Feline Large Animal Model.

Laurence M Occelli, Felipe Marinho, Ratnesh K Singh, Francois Binette, Igor O Nasonkin, Simon M Petersen-Jones

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Article in Journal of visualized experiments : JoVE, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
0.2field-weighted citation impact, top 47% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 6 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Animal models for the evaluation of retinal stem cell therapies.Progress in retinal and eye research · 2025
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  2. New frontiers in retinal transplantation.World journal of transplantation · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Laurence M Occelli *College of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Small Animal Clinical Sciences, Michigan State University.
Felipe Marinho *College of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Small Animal Clinical Sciences, Michigan State University.
Ratnesh K SinghLineage Cell Therapeutics, Inc.
Francois BinetteLineage Cell Therapeutics, Inc.
Igor O NasonkinLineage Cell Therapeutics, Inc.
Simon M Petersen-JonesCollege of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Small Animal Clinical Sciences, Michigan State University; peter315@cvm.msu.edu.
Michigan State University · US

Funding

Retinal tissue derived from human pluripotent stem cells for vision restorationR44EY027654 · NEI · BIOTIME, INC. · PI NASONKIN, IGOR O., PETERSEN-JONES, SIMON · 2017 to 2019
$2.2M
NEI NIH HHS R44 EY027654
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Retinal degenerative (RD) conditions associated with photoreceptor loss such as age-related macular degeneration (AMD), retinitis pigmentosa (RP) and Leber Congenital Amaurosis (LCA) cause progressive and debilitating vision loss. There is an unmet need for therapies that can restore vision once photoreceptors have been lost. Transplantation of human pluripotent stem cell (hPSC)-derived retinal tissue (organoids) into the subretinal space of an eye with advanced RD brings retinal tissue sheets with thousands of healthy mutation-free photoreceptors and has a potential to treat most/all blinding diseases associated with photoreceptor degeneration with one approved protocol. Transplantation of fetal retinal tissue into the subretinal space of animal models and people with advanced RD has been developed successfully but cannot be used as a routine therapy due to ethical concerns and limited tissue supply. Large eye inherited retinal degeneration (IRD) animal models are valuable for developing vision restoration therapies utilizing advanced surgical approaches to transplant retinal cells/tissue into the subretinal space. The similarities in globe size, and photoreceptor distribution (e.g., presence of macula-like region area centralis) and availability of IRD models closely recapitulating human IRD would facilitate rapid translation of a promising therapy to the clinic. Presented here is a surgical technique of transplanting hPSC-derived retinal tissue into the subretinal space of a large animal model allowing assessment of this promising approach in animal models.

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Human Embryonic Stem CellsPluripotent Stem CellsRetinal DegenerationAnimalsCatsDisease Models, AnimalHumansRetinaStem Cell Transplantation

Identifiers

PMID34424232
PMCPMC10029721
OpenAlexW3188642803

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Registered trials

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