Donor and host photoreceptors engage in material transfer following transplantation of post-mitotic photoreceptor precursors

Nature Communications

Volumn 7, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Pearson, R A ^a   Gonzalez Cordero, A ^a   West, E L ^a   Ribeiro, J R ^a   Aghaizu, N ^a   Goh, D ^a   Sampson, R D ^a   Georgiadis, A ^a   Waldron, P V ^a   Duran, Y ^a   Naeem, A ^a   Kloc, M ^a   Cristante, E ^a   Kruczek, K ^a   Warre Cornish, K ^a,d   Sowden, J C ^a   Smith, A J ^b   Ali, R R ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine Section   (United Kingdom)

^c MOORFIELDS EYE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRE RECOMBINASE; RHODOPSIN; TRANSDUCIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; RNA;

BLINDNESS; CELLS AND CELL COMPONENTS; DISEASE TREATMENT; EYE; NUCLEIC ACID; PHOTORECEPTION; PROTEIN; RODENT;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL BODY; CELL FUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA TRANSFER; DONOR-HOST CELL INTERACTION; FEMALE; FIBROBLAST; HOST CELL; MACROPHAGE; MALE; MOUSE; NEURAL STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR CELL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RETINAL NEUROEPITHELIAL LAYER; RNA TRANSPORT; TRANSPORT AT THE CELLULAR LEVEL; VISION; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; DONOR; METABOLISM; NIH 3T3 CELL LINE; RETINA; RETINA DEGENERATION; RETINA DISEASE; RETINA ROD; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; TRANSPLANTATION; VERTEBRATE PHOTORECEPTOR CELL;

MURINAE;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; NIH 3T3 CELLS; PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS, VERTEBRATE; RETINA; RETINAL DEGENERATION; RETINAL DISEASES; RETINAL ROD PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS; RNA; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; TISSUE DONORS;

EID: 84989869803     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms13029     Document Type: Article

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