Progress in the development of a synthetic corneal onlay

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 43, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 3196-3201

  Evans, Margaret D M ^a   Xie, Ruo Zhong ^a   Fabbri, Mirella ^a   Bojarski, Barbara ^a   Chaouk, Hassan ^a   Wilkie, John S ^a   McLean, Keith M ^a   Cheng, Han Ying ^a   Vannas, Antti ^a   Sweeney, Deborah F ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN TYPE 1; PERFLUOROPOLYETHER; POLYMER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BASAL CELL; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; CAT; CONTACT LENS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA; CORNEA EPITHELIUM; DESMOSOME; EPITHELIZATION; HEMIDESMOSOME; MICROVILLUS; NONHUMAN; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTION ERROR; SQUAMOUS EPITHELIUM;

ANIMALS; CATS; COATED MATERIALS, BIOCOMPATIBLE; COLLAGEN; CORNEA; EPITHELIUM, CORNEAL; ETHERS; FLUOROCARBONS; LENSES, INTRAOCULAR; POLYMERS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0036785741     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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