Human neural progenitor cells promote photoreceptor survival in retinal explants

Experimental Eye Research

Volumn 90, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 292-299

  Englund Johansson, Ulrica ^a   Mohlin, Camilla ^b   Liljekvist Soltic, Ingela ^a,b   Ekström, Per ^a   Johansson, Kjell ^b,c  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b LINNAEUS UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c ÖREBRO UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Neuroprotection; Photoreceptor; Progenitor cells; Retina

Indexed keywords

CALPAIN; CASPASE 3; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; GRANULOCYTE MACROPHAGE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; GROWTH FACTOR; NEUROTROPHIN 3; PLACENTAL GROWTH FACTOR; SOMATOMEDIN B; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA2; VASCULOTROPIN D;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CELL DEATH; CELL PROTECTION; CELL SURVIVAL; COCULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; DENSITOMETRY; EMBRYO; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EXPLANT; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IN VITRO STUDY; MOUSE; NEURAL STEM CELL; NEUROPROTECTION; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PHOTORECEPTOR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECRETION; RAT; THICKNESS;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CALPAIN; CASPASE 3; CELL SURVIVAL; CELLS, CULTURED; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; HUMANS; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS, VERTEBRATE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RETINAL DEGENERATION; RHODOPSIN;

EID: 77649180255     PISSN: 00144835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exer.2009.11.005     Document Type: Article

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