Rescue effects of IPE transplants in RCS rats: Short-term results

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 40, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 1545-1556

  Schraermeyer, Ulrich ^a   Kociok, Norbert ^a   Heimann, Klaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HISTOLOGY; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IRIS; NONHUMAN; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RETINA ROD OUTER SEGMENT;

ANIMALS; CELL SEPARATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CELLS, CULTURED; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; GRAFT SURVIVAL; IRIS; KERATINS; MELANOSOMES; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PHOTORECEPTORS, VERTEBRATE; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM OF EYE; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RATS, MUTANT STRAINS; RETINAL DEGENERATION; ROD OUTER SEGMENTS;

EID: 0033016284     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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