Morphological and functional rescue in RCS rats after RPE cell line transplantation at a later stage of degeneration

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 416-421

  Wang, Shaomei ^a,c   Lu, Bin ^a,c   Girman, Sergej ^a,c   Holmes, Toby ^b,c   Bischoff, Nicolas ^c   Lund, Raymond D ^a,c  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER PROTEIN; PROTEIN P 150; PROTEIN P21; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; PROTEIN KINASE C ALPHA; RCVRN PROTEIN, RAT; RECOVERIN; RHODOPSIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; RETINA DEGENERATION; RETINA DETACHMENT; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; ANIMAL; CELL CULTURE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DISEASE MODEL; LIGHT; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PHYSIOLOGY; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; RAT STRAIN; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; TRANSPLANTATION; XENOGRAFT;

ANIMALS; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CELLS, CULTURED; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; LIGHT; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; PHOTORECEPTORS, VERTEBRATE; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM OF EYE; PROTEIN KINASE C-ALPHA; RATS; RATS, MUTANT STRAINS; RECOVERIN; RETINAL DEGENERATION; RHODOPSIN; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SPACE PERCEPTION; SUPERIOR COLLICULI; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS;

EID: 39549118221     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.07-0992     Document Type: Article

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