Correlation of long term phenotypic and clinical outcomes following limbal epithelial transplantation cultivated on amniotic membrane in rabbits

British Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 422-427

  Ti, S E ^b,d   Grueterich, M ^b,c   Espana, E M ^b   Touhami, A ^b   Anderson, D F ^c   Tseng, S C G ^a,b,c  

^a OCULAR SURFACE CENTER   (United States)

^b TISSUETECH INC   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d SINGAPORE NATIONAL EYE CENTRE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KERATIN; MUCIN 5AC;

AMNION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOTRANSPLANTATION; BIOPSY; CELL CULTURE; CONJUNCTIVA; CORNEA LIMBUS; CORNEA TRANSPLANTATION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FOLLOW UP; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMPRESSION CYTOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PANNUS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RABBIT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STEM CELL; TREATMENT FAILURE;

AMNION; ANIMALS; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CONJUNCTIVA; CORNEAL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; LIMBUS CORNEAE; MODELS, ANIMAL; PHENOTYPE; RABBITS; STEM CELLS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 1542616362     PISSN: 00071161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bjo.2003.026054     Document Type: Article

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