Isolation of progenitor cells from GFP-transgenic pigs and transplantation to the retina of allorecipients

Cloning and Stem Cells

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 391-402

  Klassen, Henry ^a   Warfvinge, Karin ^b,g   Schwartz, Philip H ^c   Kiilgaard, Jens Folke ^d,h   Shamie, Neda ^a,e   Jiang, Caihui ^f   Samuel, Melissa ⁱ   Scherfig, Erik ^d   Prather, Randall S ⁱ   Young, Michael J ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF ORANGE COUNTY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^e SCHEPENS EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^g SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^h DEVERS EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

ⁱ NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; VIMENTIN;

ALLOGRAFT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL CELL CULTURE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CELL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL ISOLATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA CELL; DOWN REGULATION; FEMALE; FETUS; GRAFT RECIPIENT; GRAFT REJECTION; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RETINA CELL; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; SWINE; TRANSGENIC PIG;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CELLS, CULTURED; FEMALE; GENES, REPORTER; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; PREGNANCY; RETINA; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; STEM CELLS; SWINE; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; RODENTIA; SUIDAE; SUS;

EID: 51349134455     PISSN: 15362302     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/clo.2008.0010     Document Type: Article

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