Efficacy of nonfetal human RPE for photoreceptor rescue: A study in dystrophic RCS rats

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 146, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 1-9

  Castillo Jr , Bienvenido V ^a   Del Cerro, Manuel ^a   White, Rodger M ^a   Cox, Christopher ^a   Wyatt, Jeffrey ^a   Nadiga, Gana ^a   Del Cerro, Coca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL DENSITY; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RETINA DEGENERATION;

EID: 0031194644     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/exnr.1997.6534     Document Type: Article

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