Adult craniofacial stem cells: sources and relation to the neural crest

B Kaltschmidt, C Kaltschmidt, D Widera - Stem cell reviews and reports, 2012 - Springer
During the process of development, neural crest cells migrate out from their niche between
the newly formed ectoderm and the neural tube. Thereafter, they give rise not only to …

A systematic review on the effects of ROCK inhibitors on proliferation and/or differentiation in human somatic stem cells: A hypothesis that ROCK inhibitors support …

LR Kopecny, BWH Lee, MT Coroneo - The Ocular Surface, 2023 - Elsevier
Rho kinase inhibitors (ROCKi) have attracted growing multidisciplinary interest, particularly
in Ophthalmology where the question as to how they promote corneal endothelial healing …

[HTML][HTML] Corneal epithelial stem cells, their niche and wound healing

F Castro-Muñozledo - Molecular vision, 2013 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Stem cells emerged as a concept during the second half of 19 th century, first as a
theoretical entity, but then became one of the most promising research fields in cell biology …

[HTML][HTML] Human conjunctival stem cells are predominantly located in the medial canthal and inferior forniceal areas

RMK Stewart, CM Sheridan, PS Hiscott… - … & visual science, 2015 - arvojournals.org
Purpose.: The conjunctiva plays a key role in ocular surface defence and maintenance of the
tear film. Ex vivo expansion of conjunctival epithelial cells offers potential to reconstruct the …

[HTML][HTML] Importance of the stem cell microenvironment for ophthalmological cell-based therapy

PX Wan, BW Wang, ZC Wang - World journal of stem cells, 2015 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Cell therapy is a promising treatment for diseases that are caused by cell degeneration or
death. The cells for clinical transplantation are usually obtained by culturing healthy …

Therapeutic potentials of human microfluidic encapsulated conjunctival mesenchymal stem cells on the rat model of Parkinson's disease

M Forouzandeh, MR Bigdeli, H Mostafavi… - Experimental and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Background and aim Parkinson's disease (PD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder
caused by the destruction of the dopaminergic neurons in the nigrostriatal pathway, leading …

Topographical distribution and characterization of epithelial cells and intraepithelial lymphocytes in the human ocular mucosa

R Reinoso, R Martin-Sanz, M Martino, ME Mateo… - Mucosal …, 2012 - nature.com
The conjunctiva plays a key role in the protection of the ocular surface by initiating and
regulating immune responses. In this study, we analyze the relative proportion of …

Human ocular epithelial cells endogenously expressing SOX2 and OCT4 yield high efficiency of pluripotency reprogramming

MW Poon, J He, X Fang, Z Zhang, W Wang, J Wang… - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
A variety of pluripotency reprogramming frequencies from different somatic cells has been
observed, indicating cell origin is a critical contributor for efficiency of pluripotency …

CD44, SOX9, MMP9, Vimentin 在翼状胬肉中的表达及其意义

黄燕, 徐三荣, 李梅, 胡新远, 贺清华, 肖寿华 - 眼科新进展, 2016 - cqvip.com
目的研究CD44, SOX9, 基质金属蛋白酶9 (matrix metalloproteinase, MMP9)
及波形蛋白(Vimentin) 在原发性翼状胬肉组织中的表达及其意义. 方法对25 …

[HTML][HTML] Alpha-Synuclein Clearance through Inhibiting Akt/mTOR Pathway by Microfluidic Encapsulated Induced Conjunctival MSCs in a Parkinsonian Model

M Forouzandeh, MR Bigdeli, H Mostafavi… - Iranian Journal of …, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Methods: Stereotaxic 6-hydroxy dopamine (6-OHDA) was injected directly into the medial
forebrain bundle (MFB) to induce Parkinson's disease. An apomorphine-induced rotation …