Immunity and immune privilege elicited by cultured retinal pigment epithelial cell transplants

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 1619-1626

  Grisanti, Salvatore ^a,b   Ishioka, Misaki ^a   Kosiewicz, Michelle ^a   Jiang, Luke Qi ^a  

^a SCHEPENS EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Delayed hypersensitivity; Immune privilege; Immunity; Retinal pigment epithelial cells; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIGEN; BROXURIDINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; CELL CULTURE; CELL INFILTRATION; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELAYED HYPERSENSITIVITY; DIAGNOSIS; EPITHELIUM CELL; GRAFT REJECTION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MALE; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA PIGMENT EPITHELIOPATHY;

ANIMALS; ANTERIOR CHAMBER; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CELLS, CULTURED; CONJUNCTIVA; GRAFT REJECTION; HYPERSENSITIVITY, DELAYED; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNITY; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM OF EYE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETINA; SPLEEN; T-LYMPHOCYTES, REGULATORY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0030852698     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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