CGMP production of patient-specific iPSCs and photoreceptor precursor cells to treat retinal degenerative blindness

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Wiley, Luke A ^a   Burnight, Erin R ^a   Deluca, Adam P ^a   Anfinson, Kristin R ^a   Cranston, Cathryn M ^a   Kaalberg, Emily E ^a   Penticoff, Jessica A ^a   Affatigato, Louisa M ^a   Mullins, Robert F ^a   Stone, Edwin M ^a   Tucker, Budd A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC GMP; NR2E3 PROTEIN, HUMAN; ORPHAN NUCLEAR RECEPTOR;

ADULT; ANIMAL; AUTOTRANSPLANTATION; BLINDNESS; CELL CULTURE; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CYTOLOGY; FIBROBLAST; GENETICS; HUMAN; INDUCED PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; METABOLISM; MOUSE; MUTATION; ORGANOID; PATHOLOGY; RETINA CONE; RETINA DEGENERATION; SKIN; TRANSPLANTATION;

ADULT; ANIMALS; BLINDNESS; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLS, CULTURED; CYCLIC GMP; FIBROBLASTS; HUMANS; INDUCED PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS; MICE; MUTATION; ORGANOIDS; ORPHAN NUCLEAR RECEPTORS; RETINAL CONE PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS; RETINAL DEGENERATION; SKIN; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS;

EID: 84982733879     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep30742     Document Type: Article

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