Exploring RPE as a source of photoreceptors: Differentiation and integration of transdifferentiating cells grafted into embryonic chick eyes

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 47, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 5066-5074

  Liang, Lina ^a   Yan, Run Tao ^a   Ma, Wenxin ^a   Zhang, Huanmin ^b   Wang, Shu Zhen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; OPSIN; RETROVIRUS VECTOR; VISININ; BASIC HELIX LOOP HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; NERVE PROTEIN; NEUROGENIC DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL ISOLATION; CELL TRANSDIFFERENTIATION; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CHICK EMBRYO; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; EMBRYO; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; NERVE FIBER; NEUROD GENE; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PIGMENT CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA OUTER MOLECULAR LAYER; RETINA OUTER NUCLEAR LAYER; RETINA ROD OUTER SEGMENT; ANIMAL; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECT; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; RETINA; TRANSPLANTATION;

ANIMALS; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHICK EMBRYO; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; OPSIN; PHOTORECEPTORS; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM OF EYE; RETINA;

EID: 34247175352     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.06-0515     Document Type: Article

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