The adult retinal stem cell is a rare cell in the ciliary epithelium whose progeny can differentiate into photoreceptors

Biology Open

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 237-246

  Ballios, Brian G ^a   Clarke, Laura ^a   Coles, Brenda L K ^a   Shoichet, Molly S ^a,b   Van Der Kooy, Derek ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry ^*  (Canada)

Author keywords

Photoreceptor differentiation; Retina; Stem cells

Indexed keywords

EID: 84964674895     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20466390     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/bio.2012027     Document Type: Article

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