The transplantation of human fetal neuroretinal cells in advanced retinitis pigmentosa patients: Results of a long-term safety study

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 157, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 58-68

  Das, Taraprasad ^a   Del Cerro, Manuel ^b   Jalali, Subhadra ^a   Rao, Vallam S ^a   Gullapalli, Vamsi K ^b   Little, Caroline ^b   Loreto, David A D ^b   Sharma, Savitri ^a   Sreedharan, A ^a   Del Cerro, Constancia ^b   Rao, Gullapalli N ^a  

^a L V PRASAD EYE INSTITUTE   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fetal cells; Human; Photoreceptors; Retina; Retinal degeneration; Retinitis pigmentosa; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CELL SUSPENSION; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CELL VIABILITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FETUS CELL; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMAN; MALE; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA CELL; RETINA DISEASE; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; SAFETY; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0032909754     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/exnr.1998.6992     Document Type: Article

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