Publications
Differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells to retinal pigmented epithelium in defined conditions using purified extracellular matrix proteins. Journal of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine. 7(8):642-53.
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2013. Differentiation of pluripotent stem cells into retinal pigmented epithelium. Developments in Ophthalmology. 53:81-96.
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2014. Drusen are Cold Spots for Proteolysis: Expression of Matrix Metalloproteinases and Their Tissue Inhibitor Proteins in Age-related Macular Degeneration. Investigative Ophtalmology & Visual Science. 43:697.
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2002. Drusen are Cold Spots for Proteolysis: Expression of Matrix Metalloproteinases and Their Tissue Inhibitor Proteins in Age-related Macular Degeneration. Experimental Eye Research. 74(1):141-54.
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2002. Efficient transfection and expression of heterologous genes in PC12 cells. DNA Cell Biology. 9(3):221-9.
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1990. Essential kinase-independent role of a Fer-like non-receptor tyrosine kinase in Caenorhabditis elegans morphogenesis. Development. 132(14):3185-95.
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2005. Evidence against a laminin receptor role for calsequestrin. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 174(3):1208-16.
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1991. Exposure of ROS to serum facilitates ROS phagocytosis by cultured human RPE. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science. 38:1541–1541.
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1997. Expression and function of integrin alpha4beta1 and vascular cell adhesion molecule-1 (VCAM-1) during sympathetic innervation of the heart. Developmental Dynamics. 231(2):359-69.
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2004. Expression and functions of beta1 integrins in the developing chick retina. Inevestigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science. 41:S846–S846.
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2000. Expression of the calsequestrin gene in chicken cerebellum Purkinje neurons. Biochemical Journal. 294 ( Pt 2):487-90.
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1993. Fibulin-5 and Fibulin-6 (Hemicentin-1) Are Expressed by RPE Cells and Found in Drusen. Investigative Ophtalmology & Visual Science. 46:5283.
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2005. Functional Assessment of Patient-Derived Retinal Pigment Epithelial Cells Edited by CRISPR/Cas9.. Int J Mol Sci. 19(12)
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2018. Functional identification of integrin laminin receptors that mediate process outgrowth by human SY5Y neuroblastoma cells. Journal of Neuroscience Research. 37(4):475-88.
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1994. Glucose-induced alteration of integrin expression and function in cultured human mesangial cells. Cell Communication and Adhesion. 3(3):187-200.
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1995. HLA-E-expressing pluripotent stem cells escape allogeneic responses and lysis by NK cells. Nat Biotechnol.
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2017. Human SY5Y neuroblastoma cell interactions with laminin isoforms: neurite outgrowth on laminin-5 is mediated by integrin alpha 3 beta 1. Cell Communication and Adhesion. 3(6):451-62.
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1996. Humanized Mice Reveal Differential Immunogenicity of Cells Derived from Autologous Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells. Cell Stem Cell. 17(3):353-9.
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2015. Identification and developmental expression of a chicken calsequestrin homolog. Developmental Biology. 142(1):169-77.
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1990. Identification of a bacterial sensing protein and effects of its elevated expression. Journal of Bacteriology. 162(1):398-405.
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1985. Imaging and mapping heparin-binding sites on single fibronectin molecules with atomic force microscopy. Biochemistry. 39(12):3192-6.
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2000. Imaging real-time proteolysis of single collagen I molecules with an atomic force microscope. Biochemistry. 38(31):9956-63.
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1999. Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Retinal Pigmented Epithelium: A Comparative Study Between Cell Lines and Differentiation Methods. J Ocul Pharmacol Ther. 32(5):317-30.
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2016. Inhibition of integrin alpha4/beta1 in developing chick retina results in increased apoptosis. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 13:482A–483A.
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2002. An Innovative Surgical Technique for Subretinal Transplantation of Human Embryonic Stem Cell-Derived Retinal Pigmented Epithelium in Yucatan Mini Pigs: Preliminary Results. Ophthalmic Surgery, Lasers Imaging Retina. 47(4):342-51.
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