Results for eye disease

Tissue engineering 2: Transplantation of cultivated autologous oral mucosal epithelial sheets in order to restore sight

Chie Sotozono*, Tsutomu Inatomi*†, Takahiro Nakamura*, Noriko Koizumi‡,  Kojiro Imai§, Shigeru Kinoshita*| , Yasuko Kimura¶ , Masahiro J. Go¶  and Masanori Fukushima¶   

Reducing cornea damage by transplanting cells from mouth

Transplanting sheets of cells grown in the lab onto the eye improves vision in patients suffering from severe disorders of the surface of their eyes