Ultrastructural changes during contraction of collagen lattices by ocular fibroblasts

Wound Repair and Regeneration

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 157-166

  Porter, Rebecca A ^a   Brown, Robert A ^a,b   Eastwood, Mark ^b   Occleston, Nicholas L ^b   Khaw, Peng T ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c MOORFIELDS EYE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN;

ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL MOTION; CONJUNCTIVA; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; CYTOLOGY; EYE; FIBROBLAST; HUMAN; SCANNING TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SURFACE PROPERTY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CELL MOVEMENT; CELLS, CULTURED; COLLAGEN; CONJUNCTIVA; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; EYE; FIBROBLASTS; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING TRANSMISSION; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 0032010091     PISSN: 10671927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1524-475X.1998.60210.x     Document Type: Article

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