Reconstruction of Trabecular Tissue from Human Trabecular Cells as a Multicellular Spheroid

Acta Medica Okayama

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 213-218

  Matsuo, Toshihiko ^a   Matsuo, Nobuhiko ^a  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Basic fibroblast growth factor; Epidermal growth factor; Histology; Human trabecular cells; Multicellular spheroids

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CYTOLOGY; HUMAN; MULTICELLULAR SPHEROID; TRABECULAR MESHWORK;

HUMANS; SPHEROIDS, CELLULAR; TRABECULAR MESHWORK;

EID: 0031201677     PISSN: 0386300X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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