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Advances in experimental medicine and biology - 01 January 2019
In developed countries, blindness and visual impairment are caused mainly by diseases affecting the retina. These retinal degenerative diseases, including age-related macular dystrophy (AMD) and inherited retinal diseases such as retinitis pigmentosa (RP), are the predominant causes of human blin...
Medecine sciences : M/S - 01 January 2019
Medecine sciences : M/S - 01 December 2018
Experimental eye research - 01 December 2018
The ARPE-19 cell line is currently used as an in vitro model for retinal diseases such as age-related degeneration (AMD). However, several studies have pointed out morphological and genetic differences between ARPE-19 cells and human fetal or adult retinal pigment epithelial (hRPE) cells. This st...
Stem cell reports - 13 November 2018
Recent studies highlighted the importance of astrocytes in neuroinflammatory diseases, interacting closely with other CNS cells but also with the immune system. However, due to the difficulty in obtaining human astrocytes, their role in these pathologies is still poorly characterized. Here, we de...
Brain : a journal of neurology - 01 October 2018
Metformin, the well-known anti-diabetic drug, has been shown recently to improve the grip test performance of the DMSXL mouse model of myotonic dystrophy type 1. The drug may have positively affected muscle function via several molecular mechanisms, on RNA splicing, autophagia, insulin sensitivit...