Long-term in vitro expansion of retinal progenitor cells by culturing intact neurospheres in monolayer

Ophthalmic Research

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 291-297

  Lai, Pinghong ^a,b   Tang, Shibo ^a   Yi, Jinglin ^b   Zhu, Xiaobo ^a   Zou, Yuping ^a   Xie, Hui ^b   Gao, Yi ^a   Lin, Shaofen ^a  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b JIANGXI PROVINCIAL PEOPLE S HOSPITAL   (China)

Author keywords

Cell culture; Cell expansion; Neural retina; Progenitor cells

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; LEUKEMIA INHIBITORY FACTOR; MICROTUBULE ASSOCIATED PROTEIN 2; NESTIN; RHODOPSIN;

ANIMAL CELL CULTURE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CENTRIFUGATION; EMBRYO; GLIA CELL; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IN VITRO STUDY; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NEUROECTODERM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RETINA NERVE CELL; STEM CELL EXPANSION;

ANIMALS; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEINS; MICE; MICROTUBULE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PREGNANCY; RETINA; RHODOPSIN; SPHEROIDS, CELLULAR;

EID: 54549091128     PISSN: 00303747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000134927     Document Type: Article

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