Cell transplantation to arrest early changes in an ush2a animal model

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 2269-2276

  Lu, Bin ^a   Wang, Shaomei ^a   Francis, Peter J ^a   Li, Tiansen ^b   Gamm, David M ^c   Capowski, Elizabeth E ^c   Lund, Raymond D ^a,d  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONE OPSIN; GREEN CONE OPSIN; RED CONE OPSIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; OPSIN; SCLEROPROTEIN; USH2A PROTEIN, MOUSE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL LOSS; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DETERIORATION; EYE EXAMINATION; FEMALE; FOREBRAIN DERIVED STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; GENE; MOUSE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NONHUMAN; OPTOMOTOR TEST; PERINATAL PERIOD; PHOTORECEPTOR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; USH2A GENE; USHER SYNDROME; VISUAL ACUITY; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CYTOLOGY; DISEASE MODEL; FOREBRAIN; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MOUSE MUTANT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PHYSIOLOGY; RETINA; RETINA CONE; RETINA DEGENERATION; STEM CELL; VISUAL DISORDER; XENOGRAFT;

ANIMALS; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX PROTEINS; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; OPSINS; PROSENCEPHALON; RETINA; RETINAL CONE PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS; RETINAL DEGENERATION; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; STEM CELLS; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS; USHER SYNDROMES; VISION DISORDERS; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 77951209789     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.09-4526     Document Type: Article

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