Photoreceptor allografts in a feline model of retinal degeneration

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 236, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 844-852

  Ivert, Lena ^a,b   Gouras, Peter ^c   Naeser, Peter ^b   Narfstrom, Kristina ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c Department of Ophthalmology ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOGRAFT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAT; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EYE FUNDUS; MICROSCOPY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; PHOTORECEPTOR; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA DEGENERATION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CATS; CELL SURVIVAL; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FUNDUS OCULI; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; PHOTOGRAPHY; PHOTORECEPTORS, VERTEBRATE; RETINA; RETINAL DEGENERATION; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 0031721653     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004170050169     Document Type: Article

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