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Formation of retinal pigment epithelium in vitro by transdifferentiation of neural retina cells.
The International journal of developmental biology - 1 Jun 2001
Opas M, Davies J R, Zhou Y, Dziak E
Abstract excerpt
Chick embryonic neural retina (NR) dedifferentiates in culture and can transdifferentiate spontaneously into retinal pigment epithelium (RPE). Both, primary RPE and transdifferentiated RPE (RPEt), are characterized by pigmentation, expression of RPE-specific protein, eRPEAG and lack of expression of the neural cell adhesion molecule, NCAM. In contrast, NR cells are unpigmented and express NCAM but not eRPE(AG)....
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