Culture and characterisation of epithelial cells from human pterygia

British Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 83, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 1077-1082

  Di Girolamo, Nick ^a   Tedla, Nicodemus ^a   Kumar, Rakesh K ^a   McCluskey, Peter ^a   Lloyd, Andrew ^a   Coroneo, Minas T ^b   Wakefield, Denis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b PRINCE OF WALES HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKERATIN; EPITHELIAL MEMBRANE ANTIGEN; MUCIN; VIMENTIN;

ARTICLE; CELL MIGRATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CULTURE MEDIUM; EPITHELIUM CELL; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MICROSCOPY; MONOLAYER CULTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PTERYGIUM;

EID: 0032853018     PISSN: 00071161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bjo.83.9.1077     Document Type: Article

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