Temporal progression of retinal progenitor cell identity: Implications in cell replacement therapies

Frontiers in Neural Circuits

Volumn 11, Issue , 2017, Pages

  Javed, Awais ^a,b   Cayouette, Michel ^a,b,c  

^a CLIN RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MONTREAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cell replacement therapies; Cone photoreceptors; Neural progenitors; Retinal degenerative diseases; Stem cells; Temporal identity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FATE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; CELL THERAPY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR REPROGRAMMING; PHENOTYPE; REGULATORY MECHANISM; RETINA CELL; RETINA CONE; RETINA DEGENERATION; RETINA DEVELOPMENT; RETINA DYSTROPHY; RETINA ROD; STEM CELL; STEM CELL CULTURE; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; HUMAN; NEURAL STEM CELL; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RETINA; RETINA DISEASE; TRANSPLANTATION;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; NEURAL STEM CELLS; RETINA; RETINAL CONE PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS; RETINAL DISEASES;

EID: 85041319150     PISSN: 16625110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fncir.2017.00105     Document Type: Article

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