Cryopreservation of Human Donor Corneas with Dextran

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 44, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 5110-5115

  Halberstadt, Markus ^a   Böhnke, Matthias ^b   Athmann, Susanne ^c   Hagenah, Michael ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b University of Hannover ^*

^c LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYOPROTECTIVE AGENT; DEXTRAN;

ARTICLE; CELL DAMAGE; CELL DENSITY; CELL LOSS; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA; CORNEA CELL; CRYOPRESERVATION; CULTURE MEDIUM; DONOR; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; EVALUATION; FREEZING; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KERATOLYSIS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MORPHOLOGY; ORGAN CULTURE; PHASE CONTRAST MICROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THAWING;

EID: 0344851572     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.03-0370     Document Type: Article

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