Stemming vision loss with stem cells

Journal of Clinical Investigation

Volumn 120, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 3012-3021

  Marchetti, Valentina ^a   Krohne, Tim U ^a   Friedlander, David F ^b   Friedlander, Martin ^a  

^a SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTERIOR EYE SEGMENT; AUTOLOGOUS STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; BONE MARROW CELL; CATARACT; CELL REGENERATION; CORD BLOOD STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; GLAUCOMA; HUMAN; LIMBAL STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; MYELOID PROGENITOR CELL; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA ANGIOMATOUS PROLIFERATION; RETINA DEGENERATION; RETINA DISEASE; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; RETINA MACULA DEGENERATION; RETROLENTAL FIBROPLASIA; REVIEW; STEM CELL; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; TELANGIECTASIA; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EYE; HUMANS; MACULAR DEGENERATION; RETINAL DEGENERATION; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; STEM CELLS;

EID: 77956391544     PISSN: 00219738     EISSN: 15588238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1172/JCI42951     Document Type: Review

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