Retinal transplants restore visually evoked responses in rats with photoreceptor degeneration

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 42, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 1669-1676

  Woch, G ^a   Aramant, R B ^a   Seiler, M J ^a   Sagdullaev, B T ^a   McCall, M A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL DEGENERATION; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR MEMBRANE; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUPIL REFLEX; RAT; RETINA SURGERY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; ARRESTIN; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FETAL TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM OF EYE; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RATS, MUTANT STRAINS; RETINA; RETINAL DEGENERATION; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS;

EID: 0035009625     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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