Stem cell therapies for age-related macular degeneration: The past, Present, And future

Clinical Interventions in Aging

Volumn 10, Issue , 2015, Pages 255-264

  Dang, Yalong ^a,b   Zhang, Chun ^a   Zhu, Y ^b  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY THIRD HOSPITAL   (China)

^b THE FIRST AFFILIATED HOSPITAL OF ZHENGZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Age related macular degeneration; Cell reprogramming; Clinical trial; Retinal pigment epithelium; Stem cell

Indexed keywords

NEUROTROPHIN;

AGE RELATED MACULAR DEGENERATION; APOPTOSIS; AUTOLOGOUS RETINA PIGMENT EPITHELIUM TRANSPLANTATION; BONE MARROW DERIVED MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL; CELL ADHESION; CELL DEATH; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL SURVIVAL; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL DERIVED RETINA PIGMENT EPITHELIUM CELL; HUMAN; INDUCED PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL DERIVED RETINA PIGMENT EPITHELIUM CELL; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL DERIVED RETINA PIGMENT EPITHELIUM CELL; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PROTEIN SECRETION; RETINAL STEM CELL DERIVED RETINA PIGMENT EPITHELIUM CELL; RETINITIS; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; REVIEW; SOMATIC CELL DERIVED RETINA PIGMENT EPITHELIUM CELL; STARGARDT DISEASE; STEM CELL CULTURE; STEM CELL DERIVED RETINA PIGMENT EPITHELIUM CELL; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; SUSPENSION CELL CULTURE; ADVERSE EFFECTS; MACULAR DEGENERATION; PROCEDURES; RETINAL PIGMENT EPITHELIUM;

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; HUMANS; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; RETINAL PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION;

EID: 84921505578     PISSN: 11769092     EISSN: 11781998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2147/CIA.S73705     Document Type: Review

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