Subretinal Implantation of Retinal Pigment Epithelial Cells Derived From Human Embryonic Stem Cells: Improved Survival When Implanted as a Monolayer

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 54, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 5087-5096

  Diniz, Bruno ^a,b   Thomas, Padmaja ^a   Thomas, Biju ^a,c   Ribeiro, Ramiro ^a,b,d   Hu, Yuntao ^a,e   Brant, Rodrigo ^a,b   Ahuja, Ashish ^a   Zhu, Danhong ^a   Liu, Laura ^a,f   Koss, Michael ^a,g   Maia, Mauricio ^b   Chader, Gerald ^a   Hinton, David R ^a,c   Humayun, Mark S ^a,c  

^a DOHENY EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d Hospital Universitário de Curitiba FEPAR   (Brazil)

^e PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f CHANG GUNG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^g GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Age related macular degeneration; Human embryonic stem cells; Retinal pigment epithelium

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; CELL MIGRATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CELL SUSPENSION; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFLAMMATORY CELL; MALE; MONOLAYER CULTURE; NONHUMAN; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RETINA DEGENERATION; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION;

AGE-RELATED MACULAR DEGENERATION; HUMAN EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; RETINAL PIGMENT EPITHELIUM;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CELLS, CULTURED; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; EPITHELIAL CELLS; EYE PROTEINS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MALE; RATS; RATS, NUDE; RETINA; RETINAL PIGMENT EPITHELIUM;

EID: 84880779573     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.12-11239     Document Type: Article

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