Modelling corneal epithelial wound closure in the presence of physiological electric fields via a moving boundary formalism

IMA Journal of Mathemathics Applied in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 369-393

  Gaffney, E A ^a   Maini, P K ^b   McCaig, C D ^c   Zhao, M ^c   Forrester, J V ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Corneal epithelial wound healing; Moving boundaries

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL FUNCTION; CORNEA EPITHELIUM; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GEOMETRY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; TIME; WOUND HEALING;

PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; PHYSIOLOGY;

BIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; CORNEAL EPITHELIAL WOUND HEALING; ELECTRIC FIELD STRENGTH; KEYPOINTS; MODELLING FRAMEWORK; MOVING BOUNDARIES; MOVING BOUNDARY;; WOUND CLOSURE; WOUND HEALING;

ELECTRIC FIELDS;

EID: 0033398402     PISSN: 02650746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/imammb16.4.369     Document Type: Article

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