Modeling Retinal Degeneration Using Patient-Specific Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells

• Zi-Bing Jin ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Zi-Bing Jin, Satoshi Okamoto

  Affiliations Laboratory for Retinal Regeneration, RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology, Kobe, Japan, School of Optometry and Ophthalmology, Eye Hospital, Wenzhou Medical College, Wenzhou, China

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• Satoshi Okamoto ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Zi-Bing Jin, Satoshi Okamoto

  Affiliation Laboratory for Retinal Regeneration, RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology, Kobe, Japan

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• Fumitaka Osakada,

  Affiliation Systems Neurobiology Laboratory, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California, United States of America

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• Kohei Homma,

  Affiliation Laboratory for Retinal Regeneration, RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology, Kobe, Japan

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• Juthaporn Assawachananont,

  Affiliation Laboratory for Retinal Regeneration, RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology, Kobe, Japan

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• Yasuhiko Hirami,

  Affiliation Laboratory for Retinal Regeneration, RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology, Kobe, Japan

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• Takeshi Iwata,

  Affiliation National Institute of Sensory Organs, National Hospital Organization Tokyo Medical Center, Tokyo, Japan

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• Masayo Takahashi

  * E-mail: mretina@cdb.riken.jp

  Affiliations Laboratory for Retinal Regeneration, RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology, Kobe, Japan, Center for iPS Research and Application, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

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