Transplantation of human fetal retinal pigment epithelium rescues photoreceptor cells from degeneration in the Royal College of Surgeons rat retina

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 204-211

  Little, Caroline W ^a   Castillo, Bienvenido ^a   DiLoreto, David A ^a   Cox, Christopher ^a   Wyatt, Jeffrey ^a   Del Cerro, Coca ^a   Del Cerro, Manuel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

human fetal tissue; photoreceptor rescue; retinal degeneration; retinal pigment epithelium; transplantation

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSPORIN A; RHODOPSIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FETUS CELL; GESTATIONAL AGE; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RETINA DEGENERATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANIMALS; CYCLOSPORINE; FETUS; FUNDUS OCULI; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; MALE; PHOTORECEPTORS; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM OF EYE; RATS; RATS, MUTANT STRAINS; RETINA; RETINAL DEGENERATION; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS;

EID: 0030066125     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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