A novel approach for subretinal implantation of ultrathin substrates containing stem cell-derived retinal pigment epithelium monolayer

Ophthalmic Research

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 186-191

  Hu, Yuntao ^a,e   Liu, Laura ^a,f   Lu, Bo ^c   Zhu, Danhong ^a,b   Ribeiro, Ramiro ^a,g   Diniz, Bruno ^a,h   Thomas, Padmaja B ^a   Ahuja, Ashish K ^a   Hinton, David R ^a,b   Tai, Yu Chong ^c   Hikita, Sherry T ^d   Johnson, Lincoln V ^d   Clegg, Dennis O ^d   Thomas, Biju B ^a,i   Humayun, Mark S ^a  

^a DOHENY EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e PEKING UNIVERSITY THIRD HOSPITAL   (China)

^f CHANG GUNG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^g Hospital Evangelico de Curitiba   (Brazil)

^h FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Parylene; Retinal pigment epithelium; Royal College of Surgeon rats; Stem cells; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

POLYMER; ULTRATHIN SUBSTRATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CELL LOSS; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMPLANTATION; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RETINA DEGENERATION; SPECTRAL DOMAIN OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; STEM CELL; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HUMANS; POLYMERS; RATS; RATS, MUTANT STRAINS; RETINA; RETINAL DYSTROPHIES; RETINAL PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TISSUE SCAFFOLDS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; XYLENES;

EID: 84864525282     PISSN: 00303747     EISSN: 14230259     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000338749     Document Type: Article

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