Novel enzymatic isolation of an entire viable human limbal epithelial sheet

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 44, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 4275-4281

  Espana, Edgar M ^a,b,c   Romano, Andre C ^c   Kawakita, Tetsuya ^a,b,c   Di Pascuale, Mario ^b,c   Smiddy, Robert ^c   Tseng, Scheffer C G ^a,b,c  

^a TISSUETECH INC   (United States)

^b OCULAR SURFACE CENTER   (United States)

^c Ocular Surface Research and Education Foundation   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL EXTRACT; COLLAGEN TYPE 4; COLLAGEN TYPE 7; CONNEXIN 43; DISPASE; KALININ; KERATIN; KERATIN 3; PROTEIN P63; SORBITOL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BASAL CELL; CELL VIABILITY; CORNEA LIMBUS; ENZYME ISOLATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SQUAMOUS CELL; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ADULT; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL ADHESION MOLECULES; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELL SEPARATION; CELL SURVIVAL; COLLAGEN TYPE IV; COLLAGEN TYPE VII; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ENDOPEPTIDASES; EPITHELIAL CELLS; EPITHELIUM, CORNEAL; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; GENES, TUMOR SUPPRESSOR; HUMANS; KERATINS; LIMBUS CORNEAE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MIDDLE AGED; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEINS;

EID: 0141653008     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.03-0089     Document Type: Article

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