Retinal pigment epithelial cells from thermally responsive polymer-grafted surface reduce apoptosis

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 572, Issue , 2005, Pages 363-366

  Abe, Toshiaki ^a   Hojo, Masayoshi ^b   Saigo, Yoko ^b   Yamato, Masahiko ^b   Okano, Teruo ^b   Wakusawa, Ryosuke ^b   Tamai, Makoto ^b  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CASPASE 3; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; COLLAGEN TYPE IV; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; HEAT; HOT TEMPERATURE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM OF EYE; POLYMERS; RATS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 33747444651     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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