Development of a Surgical Technique for Subretinal Implants in RatsJuan Carlos Martinez Camarillo 1,2, Yuntao Hu 1,5, Biju B. Thomas 1,2, Danhong Zhu 3, David R. Hinton 2,3, Debbie Mitra 1,2, Jose Miguel Mora Correa 2, Deepthi S. Rajendran Nair 1,2, Jane Lebkowski 4, Mark S. Humayun 1,2
1USC Roski Eye Institute, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, 2USC Dr. Allen and Charlotte Ginsburg Institute for Biomedical Therapeutics, University of Southern California, 3Department of Pathology, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, 4Regenerative Patch Technologies LLC, 5Eye center, Beijing Tsinghua Changgung Hospital, School of Clinical Medicine, Tsinghua University
The present protocol describes the scleral approach for subretinal device implantation, a feasible surgical technique for implementation in animal models of retinal diseases in research.
