Do transplanted corneal limbal stem cells survive in vivo long term? Possible techniques to detect donor cell survival by polymerase chain reaction with the amelogenin gene and Y-specific probes

Eye

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 779-785

  Henderson, T R M ^a   McCall, S H ^b   Taylor, G R ^b   Noble, B A ^a  

^a LEEDS GENERAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^b ST JAMES S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMELOGENIN;

ADULT; ANIRIDIA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA CELL; CORNEA TRANSPLANTATION; DNA POLYMORPHISM; DNA PROBE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; METHODOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STEM CELL;

EID: 0031456224     PISSN: 0950222X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/eye.1997.204     Document Type: Article

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