Derivation of neurons with functional properties from adult limbal epithelium: Implications in autologous cell therapy for photoreceptor degeneration

Stem Cells

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 939-949

  Zhao, Xing ^a   Das, Ani V ^a   Bhattacharya, Sumitra ^a   Thoreson, Wallace B ^a   Sierra, Jorge Rodriguez ^b   Mallya, Kavita B ^a   Ahmad, Iqbal ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Limbal epithelium; Neurons; Photoreceptor; Regeneration; Retina; Stem cells

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOLOGOUS STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA LIMBUS; EPITHELIUM; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHOTORECEPTOR; RAT; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; AGE; ANIMAL; AUTOTRANSPLANTATION; CELL CULTURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORNEA EPITHELIUM; CYTOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RETINA DEGENERATION; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; TRANSPLANTATION;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; EPITHELIUM, CORNEAL; MICE; NEURONS; PHOTORECEPTORS, VERTEBRATE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RETINAL DEGENERATION; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS;

EID: 49249111873     PISSN: 10665099     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1634/stemcells.2007-0727     Document Type: Article

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