Photoreceptor transplants increase host cone survival in the retinal degeneration (rd) Mouse

Ophthalmic Research

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 290-297

  Mohand Said, Saddek ^a   Hicks, David ^a   Simonutti, Manuel ^a   Tran Minh, Duc ^a   Deudon Combe, Alain ^a   Dreyfus, Henri ^a   Silverman, Martin S ^b   Ogilvie, Judith Mosinger ^b   Tenkova, Tanya ^b   Sahel, José ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF STRASBOURG   (France)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cone survival; Graft; Retinal degeneration; Trophic effect

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA CONE; RETINA DEGENERATION; TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION;

EID: 9844241056     PISSN: 00303747     EISSN: 14230259     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000268027     Document Type: Article

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