Intraretinal processing following photoreceptor rescue by non-retinal cells

Vision Research

Volumn 49, Issue 16, 2009, Pages 2067-2077

  Pinilla, I ^a,e   Cuenca, N ^b,e   Martinez Navarrete G ^b   Lund, R D ^c,e   Sauve Y ^d,e  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO MIGUEL SERVET   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

^c OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell based therapy; Electroretinogram; Photoreceptors; RCS rats; Retinal dystrophy

Indexed keywords

A WAVE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; B WAVE; CELL SURVIVAL; CELL THERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITICAL FLICKER FUSION; ELECTRORETINOGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NIGHT VISION; NONHUMAN; PARACRINE SIGNALING; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PHOTORECEPTOR; PHOTOTRANSDUCTION; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RETINA CELL; RETINA DEGENERATION; RETINA DYSTROPHY; RETINA ROD OUTER SEGMENT; SCHWANN CELL;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CELL SURVIVAL; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; FLICKER FUSION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS; RATS; RATS, MUTANT STRAINS; RETINAL CONE PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS; RETINAL DEGENERATION; RETINAL PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; RETINAL ROD PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS; SCHWANN CELLS;

EID: 67650505441     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2009.05.014     Document Type: Article

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