Transplantation of human central nervous system stem cells - neuroprotection in retinal degeneration

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 468-477

  McGill, Trevor J ^a   Cottam, Benjamin ^a   Lu, Bin ^a   Wang, Shaomei ^a   Girman, Sergej ^a   Tian, Chunyu ^a   Huhn, Stephen L ^b   Lund, Ray D ^a   Capela, Alexandra ^b  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b StemCells Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

RCS rat; Retina; Stem cell; Vision

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DENSITY; CELL FUNCTION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE MODEL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LUMINANCE; NERVE CELL GROWTH; NEURAL STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PHOTORECEPTOR; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RETINA CONE; RETINA DEGENERATION; RODENT; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION;

ANIMALS; CELL MOVEMENT; CELLS, CULTURED; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HUMANS; NEURAL STEM CELLS; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENTS; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; RETINA; RETINAL CONE PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS; RETINAL DEGENERATION; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS; VISION, OCULAR;

EID: 84862776670     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2011.07970.x     Document Type: Article

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