Intact sheets of fetal retina transplanted to restore damaged rat retinas

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 39, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 2121-2131

  Seiler, Magdalene J ^a   Aramant, Robert B ^a  

^a University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROXURIDINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; CELL PROTECTION; CELL SURVIVAL; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RETINA CELL; RETINA DEGENERATION; RETINA INJURY; ROSETTE FORMATION;

ANIMALS; BROMODEOXYURIDINE; DNA REPLICATION; FEMALE; FETAL TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; LIGHT; PHOTORECEPTORS; PREGNANCY; RADIATION INJURIES, EXPERIMENTAL; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RETINA; RETINAL DEGENERATION; RHODOPSIN;

EID: 0031666066     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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