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Abstract
Retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) arises from neuroectoderm and plays a key role in support of photoreceptor functions. Several degenerative eye diseases, such as macular degeneration or retinitis pigmentosa, are associated with impaired RPE function that may lead to photoreceptor loss and blindness. RPE derived from human embryonic stem (hES) cells can be an important source of this tissue for transplantation to cure such degenerative diseases. This chapter describes differentiation of hES cells to RPE, its subsequent isolation, maintenance in culture, and characterization.Entities:
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Year: 2006 PMID： 17141036 DOI： 10.1016/S0076-6879(06)18011-8
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Methods Enzymol ISSN： 0076-6879 Impact factor: 1.600