The use of corneal organ culture in biocompatibility studies

Biomaterials

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 1359-1367

  Evans, Margaret D M ^a,b   McFarland, Gail A ^a,b   Xie, Ruo Zhong ^a   Taylor, Sarah ^b   Wilkie, John S ^a,b   Chaouk, Hassan ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cornea; Epithelial; Histology; Synthetic polymer; Wound healing

Indexed keywords

BIOASSAY; BIOCOMPATIBILITY; MORPHOLOGY; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; POLYCARBONATES; POLYMERS;

VITRO ASSAY;

BIOMATERIALS;

PERFLUOROPOLYETHER; POLYCARBONATE; POLYMER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACCURACY; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASSAY; BIOCOMPATIBILITY; CATTLE; CELL MIGRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA EPITHELIUM; CORNEA INJURY; DEVICE; EPITHELIUM CELL; EPITHELIZATION; EVALUATION; HISTOLOGY; IMPLANTATION; IN VITRO STUDY; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; ORGAN CULTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; CATTLE; CELL MOVEMENT; CORNEA; EPITHELIAL CELLS; ETHERS; FLUOROCARBONS; KINETICS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; POLYCARBOXYLATE CEMENT; POLYMERS; TIME FACTORS; WOUND HEALING;

BOVINAE;

EID: 0036498049     PISSN: 01429612     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0142-9612(01)00255-1     Document Type: Article

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