A new wound healing model of retinal pigment epithelial cells in sheet culture

Current Eye Research

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 714-718

  Kamei, Motohiro ^a,b   Lewis, John Michael ^a   Hayashi, Atsushi ^a   Sakagami, Kenji ^a   Ohji, Masahito ^a   Tano, Yasuo ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cytoskeletons; Intercellular junctions; Rat; Retinal pigment epithelium; Tissue culture; Wound healing

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; CYTOKERATIN; PROTEINASE;

ACTIN FILAMENT; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL JUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; INCUBATION TIME; MICROVILLUS; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PHASE CONTRAST MICROSCOPY; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TIGHT JUNCTION; TISSUE CULTURE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 0029759133     PISSN: 02713683     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/02713689609003453     Document Type: Article

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