Improvement of the pupillary light reflex of Royal College of Surgeons rats following RPE cell grafts

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 140, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 100-104

  Whiteley, S J O ^a   Litchfield, T M ^a   Coffey, P J ^b   Lund, R D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; FIBROBLAST; GRAFT SURVIVAL; NERVE REGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PHOTORECEPTOR; PIGMENT DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUPIL REFLEX; RAT; RETINA DEGENERATION; RETINA ROD OUTER SEGMENT; VISION;

EID: 0030198266     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/exnr.1996.0120     Document Type: Article

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