Loss of corneal Langerhans cells during storage in organ culture medium, optisol and McCarey-Kaufman medium

Eye

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 134-138

  Ardjomand, Navid ^a,b   Berghold, Andrea ^a   Reich, Margarete E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b Universitats Augenklinik   (Austria)

Author keywords

HLA DR; Langerhans cells; McCarey Kaufman medium; Optisol; Organ culture medium; Passenger leucocytes

Indexed keywords

HLA DR ANTIGEN;

ARTICLE; CELL LOSS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA; CORNEA CELL; CORNEA EPITHELIUM; CORNEA LIMBUS; CORNEA TRANSPLANTATION; CULTURE MEDIUM; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LANGERHANS CELL; ORGAN CULTURE; STORAGE; STROMA; TEMPERATURE; TIME;

EID: 0031884511     PISSN: 0950222X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/eye.1998.22     Document Type: Article

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