Tolerance of human fetal retinal pigment epithelium xenografts in monkey retina

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 235, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 103-110

  Berglin, Lennart ^a   Gouras, Peter ^b   Sheng, Yoahua ^b   Lavid, Javier ^b   Lin, Po Kang ^b   Cao, Huiyun ^b   Kjeldbye, Hild ^a,b  

^a ST ERIK S EYE HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b Department of Ophthalmology ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; BIOMICROSCOPY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FETUS; FLUORESCENCE ANGIOGRAPHY; GRAFT REJECTION; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; PHOTORECEPTOR; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA DEGENERATION; RETINA FOVEA; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TISSUE CULTURE; XENOGRAFT;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; FETAL TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FOVEA CENTRALIS; FUNDUS OCULI; GESTATIONAL AGE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HAPLORHINI; HUMANS; PHOTORECEPTORS; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM OF EYE; RETINA; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS;

EID: 0031057505     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00941738     Document Type: Article

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