200,000-440,000 allogeneic retinal pigment epithelial cells expressing recombinant human CNTF -- to the affected eye via a surgical intravitreal implant. Approval was based on results from a pair ...

They're engineered to overexpress a very specific therapeutic protein called CNTF, or ciliary neurotrophic factor, and this implant is surgically implanted into the eye. You make a 3-mm-long ...

Encelto helps to slow the loss of your photoreceptors through production and release of a protein called recombinant human ciliary neurotrophic factor (CNTF ... 3% of people, implant extrusion ...