Enhanced Functional Integration of Human Photoreceptor Precursors into Human and Rodent Retina in an Ex Vivo Retinal Explant Model System

Tissue Engineering - Part A

Volumn 21, Issue 11-12, 2015, Pages 1763-1771

  Yanai, Anat ^a   Laver, Christopher R J ^a   Gregory Evans, Cheryl Y ^a   Liu, Ran R ^a   Gregory Evans, Kevin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; INTEGRATION; OPHTHALMOLOGY; STEM CELLS; VISION;

DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; FUNCTIONAL INTEGRATION; HUMAN EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; IN-VIVO EXPERIMENTS; PRECURSOR CELLS; RETINAL DEGENERATIONS; RETINAL DISEASE; RETINAL PIGMENT EPITHELIAL;

ALDEHYDES;

BASSOON PROTEIN; PROTEIN; PROTEIN PRECURSOR; RIBEYE PROTEIN; THROMBOSPONDIN 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ALCOHOL DEHYDROGENASE; BSN PROTEIN, HUMAN; CTBP2 PROTEIN, HUMAN; NERVE PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL VIABILITY; COCULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EX VIVO STUDY; EXPLANT; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; NEURAL STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PHOTORECEPTOR PRECURSOR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; RETINA CELL; RETINA NEUROEPITHELIAL LAYER; RODENT; STEM CELL; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINE; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CYTOLOGY; EPITHELIUM CELL; GENETICS; HUMAN EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; METABOLISM; MOUSE; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUE; PHOTORECEPTOR CELL; RAT; RETINAL PIGMENT EPITHELIUM;

RODENTIA;

ALCOHOL OXIDOREDUCTASES; ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINE; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; EPITHELIAL CELLS; HUMAN EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; HUMANS; MICE; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS, VERTEBRATE; RATS; RETINA; RETINAL PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; THROMBOSPONDIN 1;

EID: 84930153932     PISSN: 19373341     EISSN: 1937335X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ten.tea.2014.0669     Document Type: Article

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