Human retinal progenitor cell transplantation preserves vision

Journal of Biological Chemistry

Volumn 289, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 6362-6371

  Luo, Jing ^a,b   Baranov, Petr ^c   Patel, Sherrina ^b   Ouyang, Hong ^b   Quach, John ^b   Wu, Frances ^b   Qiu, Austin ^b,d   Luo, Hongrong ^b,d   Hicks, Caroline ^e   Zeng, Jing ^b,f   Zhu, Jing ^b,d   Lu, Jessica ^b   Sfeir, Nicole ^b   Wen, Cindy ^b   Zhang, Meixia ^b   Reade, Victoria ^g   Patel, Sara ^d   Sinden, John ^d   Sun, Xiaodong ^h   Shaw, Peter ^b   Young, Michael ^c   Zhanga, Kang ^b,d,i   more..

^a CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^c SCHEPENS EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e RENEURON LTD   (United Kingdom)

^f FIRST AFFILIATED HOSPITAL OF GUANGXI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^g Da Vinci Consulting   (United States)

^h SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

ⁱ VA SAN DIEGO HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASE CONTROL; OPHTHALMOLOGY; VISION;

ADVERSE EFFECT; IN-VITRO; PROGENITOR CELL; PROOF OF CONCEPT; RAT MODEL; RETINAL DEGENERATIONS; RETINAL DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; VISUAL FUNCTIONS;

ALDEHYDES;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE MODEL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RETINA CELL; RETINA DEGENERATION; RETINA OUTER NUCLEAR LAYER; RETINA PROGENITOR CELL; RETINA SPREAD DISTANCE; RETINAL THICKNESS; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VISION; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; VISUAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS;

EYE; NEUROPROGENITOR CELL; RETINAL DEGENERATION; RETINAL PROGENITOR CELLS; STEM CELLS; TRANSPLANTATION;

ANIMALS; CELL SEPARATION; CELLS, CULTURED; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; FETUS; HUMANS; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM OF EYE; RATS; RETINA; RETINAL DEGENERATION; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 84896765929     PISSN: 00219258     EISSN: 1083351X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M113.513713     Document Type: Article

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