Subretinal transplantation of MACS purified photoreceptor precursor cells into the adult mouse retina

Journal of Visualized Experiments

Volumn , Issue 84, 2014, Pages

  Eberle, Dominic ^a   Santos Ferreira, Tiago ^a   Grahl, Sandra ^a   Ader, Marius ^a  

^a CENTER FOR REGENERATIVE THERAPIES DRESDEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Issue 84; Magnetic associated cell sorting (MACS); Medicine; Photoreceptor cells; Regeneration; Regenerative therapy; Retina; Retinal degeneration; Transplantation; Vertebrate

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL SEPARATION; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CYTOLOGY; MAGNETISM; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE; NEURAL STEM CELL; RETINA; RETINA DEGENERATION; RETINA ROD; TRANSPLANTATION;

ANIMALS; CELL SEPARATION; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; MAGNETICS; MICE; NEURAL STEM CELLS; RETINA; RETINAL DEGENERATION; RETINAL ROD PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS;

EID: 84904574804     PISSN: 1940087X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3791/50932     Document Type: Article

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