Visual restoration and transplant connectivity in degenerate rats implanted with retinal progenitor sheets

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 508-520

  Seiler, M J ^a,b   Aramant, R B ^a   Thomas, B B ^b   Peng, Q ^b,c   Sadda, S R ^b   Keirstead, H S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

Author keywords

Electron microscopy; Human placental alkaline phosphatase; Retinal degeneration; Retinal progenitor cells; Retinal transplantation; Superior colliculus

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE PLACENTA ISOENZYME;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FETUS; FROZEN SECTION; HOST; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MAXIMUM ALLOWABLE CONCENTRATION; NERVE GRAFT; NEURAL STEM CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; RETINA; RETINA DEGENERATION; STEM CELL; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; SYNAPSE; VISUAL THRESHOLD;

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HUMANS; ISOENZYMES; RATS; REGENERATION; RETINA; RETINAL DEGENERATION; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; STEM CELLS; SUPERIOR COLLICULI; SYNAPSES; VISION, OCULAR; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 75749154037     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2010.07085.x     Document Type: Article

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