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Journal of Environmental Pathology, Toxicology and Oncology

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ISSN Print: 0731-8898

ISSN Online: 2162-6537

The Impact Factor measures the average number of citations received in a particular year by papers published in the journal during the two preceding years. 2017 Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate Analytics, 2018) IF: 2.4 To calculate the five year Impact Factor, citations are counted in 2017 to the previous five years and divided by the source items published in the previous five years. 2017 Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate Analytics, 2018) 5-Year IF: 2.8 The Immediacy Index is the average number of times an article is cited in the year it is published. The journal Immediacy Index indicates how quickly articles in a journal are cited. Immediacy Index: 0.5 The Eigenfactor score, developed by Jevin West and Carl Bergstrom at the University of Washington, is a rating of the total importance of a scientific journal. Journals are rated according to the number of incoming citations, with citations from highly ranked journals weighted to make a larger contribution to the eigenfactor than those from poorly ranked journals. Eigenfactor: 0.00049 The Journal Citation Indicator (JCI) is a single measurement of the field-normalized citation impact of journals in the Web of Science Core Collection across disciplines. The key words here are that the metric is normalized and cross-disciplinary. JCI: 0.59 SJR: 0.429 SNIP: 0.507 CiteScore™:: 3.9 H-Index: 49

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Potential Role of Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells as Regenerative Medicine in Retinal Cell Damage

Volume 37, Issue 4, 2018, pp. 305-316
DOI: 10.1615/JEnvironPatholToxicolOncol.2018027447
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ABSTRACT

Induced pluripotent stem cells (also called iPSCs) are somatic cells reprogrammed by overexpressing four nuclear transcriptional factors containing Sox2, Klf4, c-myc and Oct4 is the one of research hotspots. Its pluripotency, self-renewal capacity and wide accessibility to donor tissues have made possible the means for modified regenerative medicine. They are considered a possible basis of healthy tissue to cure diseases, like ophthalmic diseases, degenerative diseases, age-related macular degeneration (AMD), are primarily because of the weakening capability of photoreceptor cells, retinal ganglion cells (RGCs), retinal pigmented epithelium (RPE) or other retinal cells. And these retinal cells are unable to regenerate and currently there are no effective treatments to restore sight. iPSCs allow for the in vitro development of numerous varieties of retinal cells, and may treat these diseases by retinal transplantation. Although other stem cells could differentiate into retinal cells, iPSCs derived retinal cells might have numerous benefits as compared to other stem cell sources including embryonic stem (ES) cells. Mainly they would be directly obtained from the patient, therefore eradicating every probable chance of adverse immune responses. Second, making iPSCs just needs somatic cells, thus circumventing the valid ethical issues which limited the clinic use of ES cells derived from human. Third, iPSCs are parallel to ES cells in differentiation ability, they can be expanded in vitro and induced to differentiate into retinal cells, providing a renewable source for therapeutic applications and scientific researches. In this current review, we have concise latest progresses

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