What is it about?
We have analysed bovine eyes to locate an adult stem cell population which may have implications in corneal blindness and Glaucoma.
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Why is it important?
By using eyes from abbatoirs we now have large eye model to make research into blinding diseases without the use of laboratory animals
Perspectives
An excellent model to allow the assessment of future cell based therapies for a number of blinding diseases
Dr Carl Michael Sheridan
University of Liverpool
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This page is a summary of: Bovine Posterior Limbus: An Evaluation of an Alternative Source for Corneal Endothelial and Trabecular Meshwork Stem/Progenitor Cells, Stem Cells and Development, March 2015, Mary Ann Liebert Inc,
DOI: 10.1089/scd.2014.0257.
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