Harvest and storage of adult human retinal pigment epithelial sheets

Current Eye Research

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 802-809

  Tezel, Tongalp H ^a   Del Priore, Lucian V ^a   Kaplan, Henry J ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell harvest; Cell storage; Dispase; Human; Retinal pigment epithelium (RPE); Retinal transplantation

Indexed keywords

DISPASE; GELATIN; SUCROSE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CADAVER; CELL CULTURE; CELL JUNCTION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MICROSCOPY; MICROVILLUS; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STORAGE; TEMPERATURE; TIME; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELL DIVISION; CELL SEPARATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CRYOPRESERVATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; KERATINS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MIDDLE AGED; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM OF EYE; TISSUE PRESERVATION;

EID: 0030858953     PISSN: 02713683     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1076/ceyr.16.8.802.8981     Document Type: Article

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