Danni Lyu, Lifang Zhang, Zhenwei Qin, Shuang Ni, Jiayong Li, Bing Lu, Shengjie Hao, Qiaomei Tang, Houfa Yin, Zhijian Chen, Yong-Bin Yan, Junfeng Ji, Jiliang He, Andras Nagy, Qiuli Fu, Ke Yao
Congenital cataracts are the leading cause of childhood blindness. To date, surgical removal of cataracts is the only established treatment, but surgery is associated with multiple complications, which often lead to visual impairment. Therefore, mechanistic studies and drug-candidate screening have been intrigued by the aims of developing novel therapeutic strategies. However, these studies have been hampered by a lack of an appropriate human-disease model of congenital cataracts. Herein, we report the establishment of a human congenital cataract in vitro model through differentiation of patient-specific induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) into regenerated lenses...
October 1, 2021: NPJ Regenerative Medicine