Human corneal stem cells display functional neuronal properties

Molecular Vision

Volumn 9, Issue , 2003, Pages 159-163

  Seigel, Gail M ^a   Sun, Wei ^b   Salvi, Richard ^b   Campbell, Lorrie M ^a   Sullivan, Susan ^c   Reidy, James J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^c Upstate New York Transplant Services   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3 AMINOPROPYL(DIETHOXYMETHYL)PHOSPHINIC ACID; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; 6 CYANO 7 NITRO 2,3 QUINOXALINEDIONE; BICUCULLINE; BIOMATERIAL; CELL MARKER; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; GLYCINE RECEPTOR; KAINIC ACID; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; NESTIN; NEUROTRANSMITTER RECEPTOR; PROTEIN P63; SEROTONIN RECEPTOR; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CKAP4 PROTEIN, HUMAN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; NERVE PROTEIN; PHOSPHOPROTEIN; TP73L PROTEIN, HUMAN; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEIN;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL POPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA CELL; CORNEA LIMBUS; CORNEA TRANSPLANTATION; EXPLANT; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOTHESIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; IN VITRO STUDY; MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NERVE FUNCTION; NERVOUS SYSTEM ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; NEUROECTODERM; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; POTASSIUM CURRENT; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SODIUM CURRENT; STEM CELL; UNITED STATES; VOLTAGE CLAMP; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CYTOLOGY; DRUG ANTAGONISM; ECTODERM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; EPITHELIUM CELL; INFANT; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE CELL; PATCH CLAMP; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CELLS, CULTURED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ECTODERM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EPITHELIAL CELLS; GENES, TUMOR SUPPRESSOR; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; INFANT; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEINS; LIMBUS CORNEAE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURONS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; RECEPTORS, NEUROTRANSMITTER; STEM CELLS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEINS;

EID: 0038074305     PISSN: 10900535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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