Publication Date:
2016-03-17
Description:
Lens regeneration using endogenous stem cells with gain of visual function Nature 531, 7594 (2016). doi:10.1038/nature17181 Authors: Haotian Lin, Hong Ouyang, Jie Zhu, Shan Huang, Zhenzhen Liu, Shuyi Chen, Guiqun Cao, Gen Li, Robert A. J. Signer, Yanxin Xu, Christopher Chung, Ying Zhang, Danni Lin, Sherrina Patel, Frances Wu, Huimin Cai, Jiayi Hou, Cindy Wen, Maryam Jafari, Xialin Liu, Lixia Luo, Jin Zhu, Austin Qiu, Rui Hou, Baoxin Chen, Jiangna Chen, David Granet, Christopher Heichel, Fu Shang, Xuri Li, Michal Krawczyk, Dorota Skowronska-Krawczyk, Yujuan Wang, William Shi, Daniel Chen, Zheng Zhong, Sheng Zhong, Liangfang Zhang, Shaochen Chen, Sean J. Morrison, Richard L. Maas, Kang Zhang & Yizhi Liu The repair and regeneration of tissues using endogenous stem cells represents an ultimate goal in regenerative medicine. To our knowledge, human lens regeneration has not yet been demonstrated. Currently, the only treatment for cataracts, the leading cause of blindness worldwide, is to extract the cataractous
Print ISSN:
0028-0836
Electronic ISSN:
1476-4687
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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