Characterization of epithelial primary cultures from human conjunctiva

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 235, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 268-276

  Diebold, Yolanda ^a   Calonge, Margarita ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALLADOLID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKERATIN; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; KERATIN; MUCIN;

ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL GRANULE; CELL STRUCTURE; CONJUNCTIVA EPITHELIUM; CULTURE MEDIUM; DESMOSOME; EPITHELIUM CELL; EXPLANT; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MICROSCOPY; MICROVILLUS; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TIME; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; CELLS, CULTURED; CONJUNCTIVA; CULTURE MEDIA; CYTOPLASM; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; EPITHELIAL CELLS; EPITHELIUM; GOLGI APPARATUS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING TRANSMISSION; MICROSCOPY, PHASE-CONTRAST; MITOCHONDRIA;

EID: 0030957995     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01739635     Document Type: Article

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