Embryonic stem cell trials for macular degeneration: A preliminary report

The Lancet

Volumn 379, Issue 9817, 2012, Pages 713-720

  Schwartz, Steven D ^a   Hubschman, Jean Pierre ^a   Heilwell, Gad ^a   Franco Cardenas, Valentina ^a   Pan, Carolyn K ^a   Ostrick, Rosaleen M ^a   Mickunas, Edmund ^b   Gay, Roger ^b   Klimanskaya, Irina ^b   Lanza, Robert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Medical and Scientific Development Advanced Cell Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL TRIAL; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; EYE EXAMINATION; FLUORESCENCE ANGIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SAFETY; PERIMETRY; PIGMENT CELL; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PIGMENTATION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; STARGARDT DISEASE; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; VISUAL ACUITY; VITRECTOMY;

EID: 84857643783     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(12)60028-2     Document Type: Article

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