They house the retina’s light-responsive outer photoreceptor segment. RPE cells displaying cobblestone morphology. Cells were immunolabeled with tight-junction ZO-1 marker (shown in green ...

According to a recent study, implanting human retinal pigment epithelial (RPE) cells into the brains of patients with advanced Parkinson's disease (PD) can improve their motor symptoms.

Each patient received a 50,000-cell suspension of RPESC-RPE-4W implanted under the macula. Post-implant clinical outcomes were assessed over 12 months for the worse-seeing Group I and over 3 ...