Iris as a recipient tissue for pigment cells: Organized in vivo differentiation of melanocytes and pigmented epithelium derived from embryonic stem cells in vitro

Developmental Dynamics

Volumn 237, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 2394-2404

  Aoki, Hitomi ^a   Hara, Akira ^a   Motohashi, Tsutomu ^a   Chem, Huayue ^a   Kunisada, Takahiro ^a  

^a GIFU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

ES cells; Melanocytes; Pigmented epithelium; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CELL TYPE; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; IRIS; MALE; MELANOCYTE; MORPHOLOGY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PIGMENT CELL; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROMA CELL;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINE; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; ENDOTHELIN-3; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IRIS; MALE; MELANOCYTES; MICE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM OF EYE; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION;

EID: 51549108717     PISSN: 10588388     EISSN: 10970177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dvdy.21656     Document Type: Article

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