Sentences with phrase «cells repair retinal»

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Investigators at Johns Hopkins report they have developed human induced - pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) capable of repairing damaged retinal vascular tissue in mice.

The white arrow shows iPSC - derived vascular stem cells incorporating into a damaged retinal blood vessel and repairing it.

Future studies can now address how to maintain induced retinal cell cultures in a proliferative, multipotent state and drive them to all the retinal cell classes necessary to repair a damaged or degenerating mature retina.

I firmly believe that basic knowledge is absolutely necessary; if we are going to be able to repair injured retinas, we need to know how different retinal cells are made normally, so we can remake them in a culture dish and use them to replace injured retinal cells.

So for the last 15 years I've been studying retinal ganglion cell biology trying to understand why they fail to survive after injury or in degenerative diseases like glaucoma and also when their connections to the brain are interrupted why do they fail to regenerate to regrow, why do they fail to repair themselves, it's this fundamental problem that leads to permanent vision loss in glaucoma.

His laboratory is currently trying to understand how to regenerate the diseased and injured visual system and is now initiating pre-clinical studies in humans using virtual reality to try to stimulation repair and recovery of retinal cells in glaucoma and other degenerative conditions.

His laboratory at Stanford University School of Medicine is developing novel stem cell and nanotherapeutics approaches for ocular repair, studying retinal ganglion cell development, survival and axon regeneration in glaucoma, and investigating the cellular basis for the developmental loss of axon growth ability.