Current status of pluripotent stem cells: Moving the first therapies to the clinic

Nature Reviews Drug Discovery

Volumn 14, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 681-692

  Kimbrel, Erin A ^a   Lanza, Robert ^a  

^a Ocata Therapeutics   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

AGE RELATED MACULAR DEGENERATION; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; BLACKFAN DIAMOND ANEMIA; CELL CULTURE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COL7A1 GENE; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; CYTOPLASM; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DISEASE MODEL; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; DRUG DEVELOPMENT; ENDODERM; FANCONI ANEMIA; GENE MUTATION; GOOD MANUFACTURING PRACTICE; HEART FAILURE; HEART FUNCTION; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ENDSYSTOLIC VOLUME; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HUMAN; INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; INTESTINAL ORGANOID; KERATINOCYTE; LIVER CELL; LUPUS VULGARIS; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL; MYOPIA; MYOPIC MACULAR DEGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PANCREAS CELL; PANCREATIC ENDODERM CELL; PARKINSON DISEASE; PATIENT SAFETY; PERIPHERAL VISION; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGERIA; QUALITY OF LIFE; REGENERATIVE MEDICINE; REVIEW; STARGARDT DISEASE; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; VISUAL ACUITY; WERNER SYNDROME; WET MACULAR DEGENERATION; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); HEART DISEASES; LUNG DISEASES; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; TRANSPLANTATION;

CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; DRUG DISCOVERY; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES; MACULAR DEGENERATION; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS; REGENERATIVE MEDICINE; RETINAL PIGMENT EPITHELIUM;

EID: 84942985344     PISSN: 14741776     EISSN: 14741784     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrd4738     Document Type: Review

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