Surgical results and microscopic analysis of the tissue reaction following implantation and explantation of an intraocular implant for epiretinal stimulation in minipigs

Ophthalmic Research

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 192-198

  Menzel Severing, Johannes ^a   Sellhaus, Bernd ^a   Laube, Thomas ^b   Brockmann, Claudia ^b   Bornfeld, Norbert ^b   Walter, Peter ^a   Roessler, Gernot ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Epiretinal stimulation; Immunohistochemistry; Minipig; Retina; Retinal prosthesis; Vitreoretinal surgery

Indexed keywords

CD45 ANTIGEN; CD68 ANTIGEN; EOSIN; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; HEMATOXYLIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOCOMPATIBILITY; BLEEDING; CELL ACTIVATION; EXPLANT; GLIA CELL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; IMPLANT; INFLAMMATORY CELL; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MINIPIG; MUELLER CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RETINA; SAFETY; VISUAL PROSTHESIS; VISUAL STIMULATION; ANIMAL; DEVICE REMOVAL; DEVICES; ELECTRODE IMPLANT; ELECTROSTIMULATION THERAPY; EYE SURGERY; FOREIGN-BODY REACTION; GLIOSIS; MACROGLIA; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PIG; PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; RETINAL DISEASES; SURGERY; VITREORETINAL SURGERY;

ANIMALS; DEVICE REMOVAL; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; EPENDYMOGLIAL CELLS; FOREIGN-BODY REACTION; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; GLIOSIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; OPHTHALMOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; RETINA; RETINAL DISEASES; SWINE; SWINE, MINIATURE; VISUAL PROSTHESIS; VITREORETINAL SURGERY;

EID: 79953265814     PISSN: 00303747     EISSN: 14230259     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000324650     Document Type: Article

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