Repair of the degenerate retina by photoreceptor transplantation

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 354-359

  Barber, Amanda C ^a   Hippert, Claire ^a   Duran, Yanai ^a   West, Emma L ^a   Bainbridge, James W B ^a   Warre Cornish, Katherine ^a   Luhmann, Ulrich F O ^a   Lakowski, Jorn ^b   Sowden, Jane C ^b   Ali, Robin R ^a,b   Pearson, Rachael A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Gliosis; Retinal degeneration; Stem cells

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; GLIA CELL; GLIOSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OUTER MEMBRANE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA DEGENERATION; RETINA ROD; RETINA SURGERY; VISION;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL COUNT; CYCLIC NUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHODIESTERASES, TYPE 6; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GTP-BINDING PROTEIN ALPHA SUBUNITS; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEINS; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NIGHT BLINDNESS; OPTIC ATROPHY, HEREDITARY, LEBER; RETINAL ROD PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; RHO GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; TRANSDUCIN; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

MURINAE;

EID: 84871994432     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1212677110     Document Type: Article

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