Nutritional requirements of the corneal epithelium and anterior stroma: Clinical findings

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 284-291

  Sweeney, Deborah F ^a   Xie, Ruo Zhong ^a   O'Leary, Daniel J ^a   Vannas, Antti ^a   Odell, Ross ^a   Schindhelm, Klaus ^a   Cheng, Han Ying ^a   Steele, John G ^a   Holden, Brien A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA EPITHELIUM; CORNEA STROMA; IMPLANT; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; NONHUMAN; NUTRITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VASCULARIZATION;

ANIMALS; CATS; CORNEA; CORNEAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; CORNEAL STROMA; CORNEAL ULCER; DIFFUSION; EPITHELIUM, CORNEAL; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; NUTRITIONAL REQUIREMENTS; PERMEABILITY; POROSITY; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS;

EID: 0001192464     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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