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ReviewCells2022

Generation of Lens Progenitor Cells and Lentoid Bodies from Pluripotent Stem Cells: Novel Tools for Human Lens Development and Ocular Disease Etiology.

Aleš Cvekl, Michael John Camerino

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In one paragraph

Review in Cells, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
14citing papers in PubMed
1.7field-weighted citation impact, top 15% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

14 citing papers in PubMed, 21 citations in OpenAlex.

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  5. Cellular Senescence in Health, Disease, and Lens Aging.Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
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  6. Intermediate filaments and their associated molecules.Journal of biomedical research · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Aleš CveklDepartments Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-3957-789X
Michael John CamerinoDepartments Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-3742-6000
Albert Einstein College of Medicine · US

Funding

PAX-6 AS A KEY REGULATOR OF LENS DEVELOPMENTR01EY012200 · NEI · YESHIVA UNIVERSITY · PI CVEKL, ALES · 2000 to 2025
$13.1M
Transcriptional Control of the Mouse aA-crystallin locusR01EY014237 · NEI · YESHIVA UNIVERSITY · PI Ales Cvekl · 2003 to 2026
$11.0M
NEI NIH HHS R01 EY012200NEI NIH HHS R01 EY014237NIH HHS R01 EY012200NIH HHS R01 EY014237
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In vitro differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) into specialized tissues and organs represents a powerful approach to gain insight into those cellular and molecular mechanisms regulating human development. Although normal embryonic eye development is a complex process, generation of ocular organoids and specific ocular tissues from pluripotent stem cells has provided invaluable insights into the formation of lineage-committed progenitor cell populations, signal transduction pathways, and self-organization principles. This review provides a comprehensive summary of recent advances in generation of adenohypophyseal, olfactory, and lens placodes, lens progenitor cells and three-dimensional (3D) primitive lenses, "lentoid bodies", and "micro-lenses". These cells are produced alone or "community-grown" with other ocular tissues. Lentoid bodies/micro-lenses generated from human patients carrying mutations in crystallin genes demonstrate proof-of-principle that these cells are suitable for mechanistic studies of cataractogenesis. Taken together, current and emerging advanced in vitro differentiation methods pave the road to understand molecular mechanisms of cataract formation caused by the entire spectrum of mutations in DNA-binding regulatory genes, such as PAX6, SOX2, FOXE3, MAF, PITX3, and HSF4, individual crystallins, and other genes such as BFSP1, BFSP2, EPHA2, GJA3, GJA8, LIM2, MIP, and TDRD7 represented in human cataract patients.

Indexed as

CataractCrystallinsLens, CrystallinePluripotent Stem CellsEye ProteinsHumansRibonucleoproteinsCrystallinsEye ProteinsRibonucleoproteinsTdrd7 protein, humancranial placodescrystallinsde-nucleationdifferentiationgene expressionlens progenitor cellslentoid bodiesoptic cupPAX6pluripotent stem cellsself-organization

Identifiers

PMID36359912
PMCPMC9658148
OpenAlexW4308455085

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