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01.03.2005 | Editors Choice
Can the injection of the patient’s own bone marrow-derived stem cells preserve cone vision in retinitis pigmentosa and other diseases of the eye?
verfasst von:
Norbert Kociok
Erschienen in:
Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology
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Ausgabe 3/2005
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Excerpt
A significant step towards the general therapeutic use of adult stem cells has been taken in the field of ophthalmology. A recent study with mice raises the possibility that some forms of human blindness might be treated with cells from the patient’s own bone marrow. Martin Friedlander at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California, and his team worked on retinitis pigmentosa (RP). In RP cells in the retina break down over time, causing gradual loss of vision and sometimes blindness. There is currently no good treatment, because RP has many different underlying causes. …