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Stemming vision loss with stem cells
2010
Journal of Clinical Investigation
Dramatic advances in the field of stem cell research have raised the possibility of using these cells to treat a variety of diseases. The eye is an excellent target organ for such cell-based therapeutics due to its ready accessibility, the prevalence of vasculo-and neurodegenerative diseases affecting vision, and the availability of animal models to demonstrate proof of concept. In fact, stem cell therapies have already been applied to the treatment of disease affecting the ocular surface,
doi:10.1172/jci42951
pmid:20811157
pmcid:PMC2929728
fatcat:ym73ujsphnddbisxpuz3qnmk6m