Retina in a dish: Cell cultures, retinal explants and animal models for common diseases of the retina

S Schnichels, F Paquet-Durand, M Löscher… - Progress in retinal and …, 2021 - Elsevier
For many retinal diseases, including age-related macular degeneration (AMD), glaucoma,
and diabetic retinopathy (DR), the exact pathogenesis is still unclear. Moreover, the currently …

Role of oxidative stress in ocular diseases associated with retinal ganglion cells degeneration

EYC Kang, PK Liu, YT Wen, PMJ Quinn, SR Levi… - Antioxidants, 2021 - mdpi.com
Ocular diseases associated with retinal ganglion cell (RGC) degeneration is the most
common neurodegenerative disorder that causes irreversible blindness worldwide. It is …

Three-dimensional retinal organoids facilitate the investigation of retinal ganglion cell development, organization and neurite outgrowth from human pluripotent stem …

CM Fligor, KB Langer, A Sridhar, Y Ren, PK Shields… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
Retinal organoids are three-dimensional structures derived from human pluripotent stem
cells (hPSCs) which recapitulate the spatial and temporal differentiation of the retina, serving …

Patient-specific retinal organoids recapitulate disease features of late-onset retinitis pigmentosa

ML Gao, XL Lei, F Han, KW He, SQ Jin… - Frontiers in cell and …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Although an increasing number of disease genes have been identified, the exact cellular
mechanisms of retinitis pigmentosa (RP) remain largely unclear. Retinal organoids (ROs) …

Retinal ganglion cells with a glaucoma OPTN (E50K) mutation exhibit neurodegenerative phenotypes when derived from three-dimensional retinal organoids

KB VanderWall, KC Huang, Y Pan, SS Lavekar… - Stem Cell Reports, 2020 - cell.com
Retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) serve as the connection between the eye and the brain, with
this connection disrupted in glaucoma. Numerous cellular mechanisms have been …

[HTML][HTML] Astrocytes modulate neurodegenerative phenotypes associated with glaucoma in OPTN (E50K) human stem cell-derived retinal ganglion cells

C Gomes, KB VanderWall, Y Pan, X Lu, SS Lavekar… - Stem cell reports, 2022 - cell.com
Although the degeneration of retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) is a primary characteristic of
glaucoma, astrocytes also contribute to their neurodegeneration in disease states. Although …

Human organoids for the study of retinal development and disease

CM Bell, DJ Zack, CA Berlinicke - Annual review of vision …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Recent advances in stem cell engineering have led to an explosion in the use of organoids
as model systems for studies in multiple biological disciplines. Together with breakthroughs …

Deciphering retinal diseases through the generation of three dimensional stem cell-derived organoids: Concise Review

A Artero Castro, FJ Rodríguez Jimenez… - Stem Cells, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Three-dimensional (3D) retinal organoids, in vitro tissue structures derived from self-
organizing cultures of differentiating human embryonic stem cells or induced pluripotent …

[HTML][HTML] A single-cell guide to retinal development: Cell fate decisions of multipotent retinal progenitors in scRNA-seq

F Shiau, PA Ruzycki, BS Clark - Developmental biology, 2021 - Elsevier
Recent advances in high throughput single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) technology
have enabled the simultaneous transcriptomic profiling of thousands of individual cells in a …

Glaucoma as a neurodegenerative disease caused by intrinsic vulnerability factors

A Artero-Castro, FJ Rodriguez-Jimenez… - Progress in …, 2020 - Elsevier
Glaucoma, one of the most common causes of blindness in developing countries today,
involves a progressive loss of neural cells in the optic nerve that leads to progressive …