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Neurogenin1 effectively reprograms cultured chick retinal pigment epithelial cells to differentiate toward photoreceptors.
The Journal of comparative neurology - 15 Feb 2010
Yan Run-Tao, Liang Lina, Ma Wenxin, Li Xiumei, Xie Wenlian, Wang Shu-Zhen
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Photoreceptors are highly specialized sensory neurons in the retina, and their degeneration results in blindness. Replacement with developing photoreceptor cells promises to be an effective therapy, but it requires a supply of new photoreceptors, because the neural retina in human eyes lacks rege...
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