| Literature DB >> 11704762 |
M Haruta1, M Kosaka, Y Kanegae, I Saito, T Inoue, R Kageyama, A Nishida, Y Honda, M Takahashi.
Abstract
We show that iris tissue in the adult rat eye, which is embryonically related to the neural retina, can generate cells expressing differentiated neuronal antigens. In addition, the Crx gene transfer induced the specific antigens for rod photoreceptors in the iris-derived cells, which was not seen in the adult hippocampus-derived neural stem cells. Our findings demonstrate a remarkable plasticity of adult iris tissue with potential clinical applications, as autologous iris tissue can be feasibly obtained with peripheral iridectomy.Entities:
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Year: 2001 PMID： 11704762 DOI： 10.1038/nn762
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Nat Neurosci ISSN： 1097-6256 Impact factor: 24.884