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SUBMITTER: Uteza Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC15906 | biostudies-literature | 1999 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Uteza Y Y Rouillot J S JS Kobetz A A Marchant D D Pecqueur S S Arnaud E E Prats H H Honiger J J Dufier J L JL Abitbol M M Neuner-Jehle M M
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 19990301 6
We developed an experimental approach with genetically engineered and encapsulated mouse NIH 3T3 fibroblasts to delay the progressive degeneration of photoreceptor cells in dark-eyed Royal College of Surgeons rats. These xenogeneic fibroblasts can survive in 1. 5-mm-long microcapsules made of the biocompatible polymer AN69 for at least 90 days under in vitro and in vivo conditions because of their stable transfection with the gene for the 18-kDa form of the human basic fibroblast growth factor ( ...[more]