Tales of retinogenesis told by human stem cells

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 39, 2009, Pages 16543-16544

  Wang, Shu Zhen ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; MICROPHTHALMIA ASSOCIATED TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX6; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SIX3;

EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PHOTORECEPTOR; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA CONE; RETINA DEVELOPMENT; RETINA GANGLION CELL; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; RETINA ROD; RETINOGENESIS; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS; RETINA;

EID: 70349737893     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0908643106     Document Type: Note

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