Generation of three-dimensional retinal tissue with functional photoreceptors from human iPSCs

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Zhong, Xiufeng ^a   Gutierrez, Christian ^a   Xue, Tian ^b,c   Hampton, Christopher ^a   Vergara, M Natalia ^a   Cao, Li Hui ^c,g   Peters, Ann ^d   Park, Tea Soon ^d   Zambidis, Elias T ^d   Meyer, Jason S ^e   Gamm, David M ^f   Yau, King Wai ^a,c   Canto Soler, M Valeria ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^g Peking University   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROPHTHALMIA ASSOCIATED TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

FUTURE PROSPECT; LIGHT; PHOTORECEPTION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FATE; CELL MATURATION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE DEVELOPMENT; FLUORESCENCE ACTIVATED CELL SORTING; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; NEUROECTODERM; NEUROEPITHELIUM; OPTIC DISK CUP; PHOTORECEPTOR; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; PHOTOTRANSDUCTION; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; RETINA CELL; RETINA DEVELOPMENT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STEM CELL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; CELL LINE; CYTOLOGY; PHOTORECEPTOR CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; RETINA;

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINE; HUMANS; INDUCED PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS; PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS, VERTEBRATE; RETINA;

EID: 84902303813     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms5047     Document Type: Article

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