Generation of hESC-derived retinal pigment epithelium on biopolymer coated polyimide membranes

Biomaterials

Volumn 33, Issue 32, 2012, Pages 8047-8054

  Subrizi, Astrid ^c   Hiidenmaa, Hanna ^a,b   Ilmarinen, Tanja ^a,b   Nymark, Soile ^a,b   Dubruel, Peter ^d   Uusitalo, Hannu ^a,e   Yliperttula, Marjo ^c   Urtti, Arto ^c   Skottman, Heli ^a,b  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^b TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^d GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^e TAMPERE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

In vitro test; Membrane; Ophthalmology; Retina; Stem cell; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

BARRIER FUNCTIONS; BIOMEMBRANES; CELL SURVIVAL; COCULTURE; HUMAN EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; IN-VITRO; IN-VITRO TESTS; OUTER SEGMENTS; PERMEABILITY MEASUREMENTS; POLYIMIDE MEMBRANES; RETINA; RETINAL PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; RPE CELL; THERAPEUTIC APPLICATION; TRANSEPITHELIAL ELECTRICAL RESISTANCES;

BIOMOLECULES; CELL CULTURE; GENES; MEMBRANES; MONOLAYERS; OPHTHALMOLOGY; POLYIMIDES; STEM CELLS; TRANSPLANTATION (SURGICAL);

SCAFFOLDS (BIOLOGY);

BIOPOLYMER; POLYIMIDE; TISSUE SCAFFOLD;

ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL STRUCTURE; COCULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MATERIAL COATING; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; PHOTORECEPTOR OUTER SEGMENT; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PIGMENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELLS, CULTURED; COATED MATERIALS, BIOCOMPATIBLE; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; HUMANS; IMIDES; POLYMERS; RATS; RETINAL PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TISSUE SCAFFOLDS;

RATTUS;

EID: 84865548810     PISSN: 01429612     EISSN: 18785905     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2012.07.033     Document Type: Article

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