Enhanced neurotrophin synthesis and molecular differentiation in non-transformed human retinal progenitor cells cultured in a rotating bioreactor

Tissue Engineering

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 141-158

  Kumar, Ravindra ^a   Dutt, Kamla ^a  

^a MOREHOUSE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOREACTORS; CELL CULTURE; DISEASES; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; PROTEINS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

BIOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; NEUROTROPHINS; RETINAL DISEASES;

NEUROLOGY;

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CALBINDIN; CILIARY NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; DOPAMINE 2 RECEPTOR; DOPAMINE 3 RECEPTOR; DOPAMINE 4 RECEPTOR; NEURON SPECIFIC ENOLASE; NEUROTROPHIN; PROTEIN KINASE C ALPHA; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR ALPHA RECEPTOR; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ARTICLE; BIOREACTOR; CELL CULTURE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL INTERACTION; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; EPITHELIUM CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MONOLAYER CULTURE; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION; RETINA CELL; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STEM CELL; TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION;

BIOREACTORS; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINE; CELLS, CULTURED; CILIARY NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 2; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; NERVE GROWTH FACTORS; RETINA; RNA, MESSENGER; STEM CELLS; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR ALPHA;

EID: 33644914160     PISSN: 10763279     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ten.2006.12.141     Document Type: Article

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