Keratocyte activation and apoptosis in transplanted human corneas in a xenograft model

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 1025-1031

  Ohno, Kenji ^a   Mitooka, Katsuya ^a   Nelson, Leif R ^a   Hodge, David O ^a   Bourne, William M ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOGRAFT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CAT; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL DENSITY; CORNEA CELL; CORNEA EPITHELIUM; CORNEA INJURY; CORNEA TRANSPLANTATION; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; KERATOPLASTY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WOUND HEALING; XENOGRAFT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CATS; CELL COUNT; CORNEA; CORNEAL STROMA; CRYOPRESERVATION; FIBROBLASTS; HUMANS; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; KERATOPLASTY, PENETRATING; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, ANIMAL; ORGAN PRESERVATION; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS;

EID: 0036202902     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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