Tissue culture of retinal pigment epithelium following isolation with a gelatin matrix technique

Experimental Eye Research

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 133-139

  Ho, Tzyy Chang ^a,b   Del Priore, Lucian V ^a,c   Kaplan, Henry J ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

gelatin; retinal pigment epithelium; RPE harvesting; RPE transplantation; RPE viability

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; MONOLAYER CULTURE; NONHUMAN; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWINE; TISSUE CULTURE;

EID: 0031080626     PISSN: 00144835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/exer.1996.0199     Document Type: Article

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