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ArticleCell transplantation

Increased Anti-Inflammatory Therapeutic Potential and Progenitor Marker Expression of Corneal Mesenchymal Stem Cells Cultured in an Optimized Propagation Medium.

Andrew Hopkinson, Maria Notara, Claus Cursiefen, Laura E Sidney

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Article in Cell transplantation. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
1.6field-weighted citation impact, top 17% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 4 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Andrew HopkinsonAcademic Ophthalmology, Mental Health and Clinical Neurosciences, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK.
Maria NotaraDepartment of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, Koln, Germany.
Claus CursiefenDepartment of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, Koln, Germany.
Laura E SidneyAcademic Ophthalmology, Mental Health and Clinical Neurosciences, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-1466-7597
University of Cologne · DEUniversity of Nottingham · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

There is a huge unmet need for new treatment modalities for ocular surface inflammatory disorders (OSIDs) such as dry eye disease and meibomian gland dysfunction. Mesenchymal stem cell therapies may hold the answer due to their potent immunomodulatory properties, low immunogenicity, and ability to modulate both the innate and adaptive immune response. MSC-like cells that can be isolated from the corneal stroma (C-MSCs) offer a potential new treatment strategy; however, an optimized culture medium needs to be developed to produce the ideal phenotype for use in a cell therapy to treat OSIDs. The effects of

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Endothelial CellsMesenchymal Stem CellsAntigens, CD34Cell DifferentiationCell ProliferationCells, CulturedCoculture TechniquesCorneaHumansPhenotypeAntigens, CD34CD34cell therapycorneadry eyeinflammationmesenchymal stem cells

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PMID38602231
PMCPMC11010753
OpenAlexW4394729877

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