Successful cotransplantation of intact sheets of fetal retina with retinal pigment epithelium

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 40, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 1557-1564

  Aramant, Robert B ^a   Seiler, Magdalene J ^b   Ball, Sherry L ^b  

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

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; FETUS; GRAFT SURVIVAL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR CELL; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RETINA CELL; RETINA DISEASE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANIMALS; ARRESTIN; CELL SURVIVAL; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FETAL TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; PHOTORECEPTORS, VERTEBRATE; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM OF EYE; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RATS, MUTANT STRAINS; RETINA; RETINAL DEGENERATION; RHODOPSIN; TRANSDUCIN;

EID: 0033044201     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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