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ReviewFrontiers in transplantation2023

A treatment within sight: challenges in the development of stem cell-derived photoreceptor therapies for retinal degenerative diseases.

Davinia Beaver, Ioannis Jason Limnios

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Review in Frontiers in transplantation, 2023. 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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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

4 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Davinia BeaverClem Jones Centre for Regenerative Medicine, Bond University, Gold Coast, QL, Australia.
Ioannis Jason LimniosClem Jones Centre for Regenerative Medicine, Bond University, Gold Coast, QL, Australia.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Stem cell therapies can potentially treat various retinal degenerative diseases, including age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and inherited retinal diseases like retinitis pigmentosa. For these diseases, transplanted cells may include stem cell-derived retinal pigmented epithelial (RPE) cells, photoreceptors, or a combination of both. Although stem cell-derived RPE cells have progressed to human clinical trials, therapies using photoreceptors and other retinal cell types are lagging. In this review, we discuss the potential use of human pluripotent stem cell (hPSC)-derived photoreceptors for the treatment of retinal degeneration and highlight the progress and challenges for their efficient production and clinical application in regenerative medicine.

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cell therapyhuman pluripotent stem cellsphotoreceptorsregenerative medicineretinal degenerationretinal organoids

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PMID38993872
PMCPMC11235385

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