I want to use human retinal pigment epithelial cells in an experiment where they will be challenged with certain drugs. The idea is to determine which drugs or other agents can result in retinal cell death such that they may be avoided.
Primary RPE isolated from postmortem human globes within 24 - 48 hours post enucleation from eye bank, with research and ethical approval or human RPE cell lines such as ARPE. Markers eg. RPE-65, Ezrin and CK-18 are expressed by human primary RPE cells in culture.
See papers by M.Boulton on RPE work over 20 years period.