A Reinterpretation of Cell Transplantation: GFP Transfer From Donor to Host Photoreceptors

Stem Cells

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 932-939

  Ortin Martinez, Arturo ^a   Tsai, En Leh Samuel ^a,b   Nickerson, Philip E ^a   Bergeret, Miriam ^a,b   Lu, Yao ^b   Smiley, Sheila ^a   Comanita, Lacrimioara ^a   Wallace, Valerie A ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^b Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology ^*  (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Fusion; GFP; Photoreceptors; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

DNA; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL CONTACT; CELL COUNTING; CELL FATE; CELL FUSION; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOARCHITECTURE; DONOR-HOST CELL INTERACTION; EUCHROMATIN; FEMALE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HETEROCHROMATIN; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RETINA NERVE CELL; ANIMAL; CELL MEMBRANE; CYTOLOGY; GENE TRANSFER; METABOLISM; STAINING; TRANSPLANTATION; VERTEBRATE PHOTORECEPTOR CELL;

ANIMALS; CELL MEMBRANE; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; MICE; PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS, VERTEBRATE; STAINING AND LABELING;

EID: 85016119886     PISSN: 10665099     EISSN: 15494918     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/stem.2552     Document Type: Article

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