KÖK HÜCEYRƏLƏRİN OFTALMOLOGİYADA TƏTBİQİ (ƏDƏBİYYAT İCMALI)

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SUMMARY

Cell injury or degeneration occurs in a number of blinding diseases.Therapy has classically consisted of preventing the initial injury or increasingthe resistance of cells to injury (cytoprotection). Recently, it has becomepossible to repopulate tissue compartments with stem cells. This article presentsa current summary of ocular stem cell research and applications to disease. Rapid progress is beingmade, and some of the frst applications of stem cells to wound repair inhuman eyes have produced successes that offer hope for the use of stem cellsin other ophthalmologic conditions.