Transplantation of autologous iris pigment epithelium to the subretinal space in rabbits

Transplantation

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 195-201

  Thumann, Gabriele ^a,b   Bartz Schmidt, Karl Ulrich ^a   El Bakri, Haitam ^a   Schraermeyer, Ulrich ^a   Spee, Christine ^b,c   Cui, Jing Z ^b   Hinton, David R ^b   Ryan, Stephen J ^b,c   Heimann, Klaus ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOTRANSPLANTATION; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; IRIDECTOMY; IRIS; MICROVILLUS; NONHUMAN; PHAGOSOME; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; RETINA; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; RETINA ROD;

ANIMALS; EYE; FEMALE; IRIS; KERATINS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM OF EYE; RABBITS; RETINA; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROTOPIC;

EID: 0033609523     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007890-199907270-00006     Document Type: Article

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