Keratocytes: More than a framework for the window

Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 91-92

  Green, Colin R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; APOPTOSIS; ASTROCYTE; BYSTANDER EFFECT; CELL POPULATION; CORNEA; CORNEA CELL; CORNEA STROMA; CORNEA SURGERY; EDITORIAL; GAP JUNCTION; HUMAN; IONIZING RADIATION; KERATECTOMY; KERATOCONUS; KERATOMILEUSIS; LASER SURGERY; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MYOPIA; OCULAR FIBROSIS; OPHTHALMOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PSEUDOPHAKIA; SCAR FORMATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND HEALING;

CORNEAL STROMA; FIBROBLASTS; FLUORESCEINS; FLUORESCENT DYES; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL;

EID: 0038030875     PISSN: 14426404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1442-9071.2003.00632.x     Document Type: Editorial

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