Long-term vision rescue by human neural progenitors in a rat model of photoreceptor degeneration

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 49, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 3201-3206

  Wang, Shaomei ^a   Girman, Sergej ^a   Lu, Bin ^a   Bischoff, Nicholas ^b   Holmes, Toby ^c   Shearer, Rebecca ^d   Wright, Lynda S ^d   Svendsen, Clive N ^d,e   Gamm, David M ^d,e   Lund, Raymond D ^a,b  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLINE; CYCLOSPORIN A; RHODOPSIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNCTION TEST; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LUMINESCENCE; NEURAL STEM CELL; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PHOTORECEPTOR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RETINA CONE; RETINA DEGENERATION; RETINA ROD; STEM CELL; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; VISION; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL THRESHOLD; ANIMAL; INJECTION; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; NERVE CELL; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PHOTORECEPTOR; TIME; TRANSPLANTATION; XENOGRAFT;

ANIMALS; CELL SURVIVAL; CONES (RETINA); HUMANS; INJECTIONS; LIGHT; NEURONS; PHOTORECEPTORS, VERTEBRATE; RATS; RETINAL DEGENERATION; RODS (RETINA); SENSORY THRESHOLDS; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; TIME FACTORS; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS; VISION; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 48249118795     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.08-1831     Document Type: Article

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