Transplantation of photoreceptor and total neural retina preserves cone function in p23h rhodopsin transgenic rat

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2010, Pages

  Yang, Ying ^a,b,c,d   Mohand Said, Saddek ^a,b,c,d   Léveillard, Thierry ^a,b,c,d   Fontaine, Valérie ^a,b,c,d   Simonutti, Manuel ^a,b,c,d   Sahel, José Alain ^a,b,c,d,e,f  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d CENTRE HOSPITALIER NATIONAL D OPHTALMOLOGIE DES QUINZE VINGTS   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f FONDATION OPHTALMOLOGIQUE ADOLPHE DE ROTHSCHILD   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RHODOPSIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; B WAVE; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRORETINOGRAM; GRAFT SURVIVAL; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR CELL; RAT; RETINA CONE; RETINA TRANSPLANTATION; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; THERAPY EFFECT; TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; ANIMAL; GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; TRANSGENIC RAT; TRANSPLANTATION;

RATTUS;

ANIMALS; PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS, VERTEBRATE; RATS; RATS, TRANSGENIC; RETINAL CONE PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS; RHODOPSIN;

EID: 78149428980     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0013469     Document Type: Article

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