STEM CELL IN OPHTHALMOLOGY (LITERATURE REVIEW)
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 first applications of stem cells to wound repair inhuman eyes have produced successes that offer hope for the use of stem cellsin other ophthalmologic conditions.