Chitosan feasibility to retain retinal stem cell phenotype and slow proliferation for retinal transplantation.

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Published in Biomed Res Int on February 02, 2014

Authors

Girish K Srivastava1, David Rodriguez-Crespo2, Amar K Singh2, Clara Casado-Coterillo3, Ivan Fernandez-Bueno1, Maria T Garcia-Gutierrez2, Joaquin Coronas4, J Carlos Pastor1

Author Affiliations

1: Instituto Universitario de Oftalmobiología Aplicada (IOBA), Universidad de Valladolid, Campus Miguel Delibes Paseo de Belen 17, 47011 Valladolid, Spain ; Centro en Red de Medicina Regenerativa y Terapia Celular de Castilla y León, 47011 Valladolid, Spain.
2: Instituto Universitario de Oftalmobiología Aplicada (IOBA), Universidad de Valladolid, Campus Miguel Delibes Paseo de Belen 17, 47011 Valladolid, Spain.
3: Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Cantabria, 39005 Santander, Spain.
4: Instituto de Nanociencia de Aragon (INA), Universidad de Zaragoza, 50018 Zaragoza, Spain.

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