Ultrastructure of retinal cells transplanted to the rabbit choroid

Ophthalmologica

Volumn 214, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 70-77

  Lütjen Drecoll, Elke ^a   Bergström, Anders ^b   Ehinger, Berndt ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Choroid; Rabbit; Retinal cell transplants; Ultrastructure

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CHOROID; FETUS; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; RABBIT; RETINA; ROSETTE FORMING CELL; SURVIVAL TIME;

ANIMALS; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; CELL DIVISION; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CHOROID; GRAFT SURVIVAL; PHOTORECEPTORS, VERTEBRATE; RABBITS; RETINA; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 0033973376     PISSN: 00303755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000027473     Document Type: Article

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