Corneal stromal wound healing in refractive surgery: The role of myofibroblasts

Progress in Retinal and Eye Research

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 311-356

  Jester, James V ^a   Petroll, W Matthew ^a   Cavanagh, H Dwight ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL CULTURE; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CORNEA CELL; CORNEA INJURY; CORNEA STROMA; CYTOLOGY; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; KERATECTOMY; KERATOTOMY; LASER SURGERY; LIGHT SCATTERING; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MYOFIBROBLAST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTION ERROR; REFRACTIVE KERATOPLASTY; WOUND CONTRACTION; WOUND HEALING;

ANIMALS; CORNEAL STROMA; FIBROBLASTS; HUMANS; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; REFRACTIVE ERRORS; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 0033064004     PISSN: 13509462     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1350-9462(98)00021-4     Document Type: Article

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