The application of hyaluronic acid hydrogels to retinal progenitor cell transplantation

Tissue Engineering - Part A

Volumn 19, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages 135-142

  Liu, Yong ^a,b   Wang, Ruilin ^b   Zarembinski, Thomas I ^c   Doty, Nate ^c   Jiang, Caihui ^b   Regatieri, Caio ^b   Zhang, Xinmei ^b   Young, Michael J ^b  

^a THIRD MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SCHEPENS EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c BIOTIME INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL PRODUCTS; CULTURE SYSTEMS; DELIVERY SYSTEMS; HYALURONIC ACID HYDROGELS; HYALURONIC ACIDS; MICROENVIRONMENTS; NEUROSPHERES; PROGENITOR CELL; RECOVERIN; SELF RENEWAL; VISCOUS SOLUTION;

ANIMAL CELL CULTURE; OPHTHALMOLOGY; ORGANIC ACIDS; STEM CELLS; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

HYDROGELS;

ANIMALIA;

HYALURONIC ACID;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; HYDROGEL; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE; RETINA; STEM CELL; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

ANIMALS; HYALURONIC ACID; HYDROGELS; MICE; RETINA; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; STEM CELLS; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

EID: 84871293079     PISSN: 19373341     EISSN: 1937335X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ten.tea.2012.0209     Document Type: Article

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