Nerve growth factor promotes corneal healing: Structural, biochemical, and molecular analyses of rat and human corneas

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 1063-1069

  Lambiase, Alessandro ^a   Manni, Luigi ^a   Bonini, Stefano ^b   Rama, Paolo ^b   Micera, Alessandra ^a   Aloe, Luigi ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; NEUROTROPHIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL BURN; CORNEA ULCER; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPITHELIUM CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KERATINOCYTE; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTOR BINDING; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STROMA CELL; ULCER HEALING;

AGED; ANIMALS; BURNS, CHEMICAL; CORNEA; EPITHELIUM, CORNEAL; EYE BURNS; EYE INJURIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTOR, TRKA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 0034029941     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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