Photoreceptors repair by autologous transplantation of retinal pigment epithelium and partial-thickness choroid graft in rabbits

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 2982-2988

  Zhang, Taoran ^a   Hu, Yuntao ^a   Li, Ying ^a   Wu, Jianguo ^a   Zhao, Lin ^a   Wang, Changguan ^a   Liu, Yuling ^a   Yin, Zhengqin ^b   Ma, Zhizhong ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b THIRD MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOTRANSPLANTATION; BRUCH MEMBRANE; CHOROID; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEBRIDEMENT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MEMBRANE DAMAGE; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PHOTORECEPTOR OUTER SEGMENT; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; RETINA; RETINA DEGENERATION; RETINA OUTER NUCLEAR LAYER; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ANIMAL; CELL SURVIVAL; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; MICROSCOPY; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHOTORECEPTOR CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; REGENERATION; TRANSPLANTATION; ULTRASTRUCTURE; WOUND HEALING;

ANIMALS; CELL SURVIVAL; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CHOROID; DEBRIDEMENT; GRAFT SURVIVAL; MICROSCOPY; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS, VERTEBRATE; RABBITS; REGENERATION; RETINAL DEGENERATION; RETINAL PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 66849127769     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.08-2131     Document Type: Article

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