Organotypic skin cultures: A human model for basic studies

Croatian Medical Journal

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 401-403

  Jakić Razumović, Jasminka ^a   Zekušić, Marija ^b   Vladović Relja, Tomislav ^c   Boranić, Milivoj ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^c KBC Zagreb   (Croatia)

^d RUDER BO KOVI INSTITUTE   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Artificial skin; Fibroblasts; Kerationcytes; Organ culture; Skin substitutes

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; BUFFER; COLLAGEN TYPE 1; COLLAGENASE; CYTOKERATIN; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; FORMALDEHYDE; HLA DR ANTIGEN; HYDROCORTISONE; HYPOPHYSIS EXTRACT; PARAFFIN; STAINLESS STEEL; TISSUE CULTURE MEDIUM; TRYPSIN;

ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL SEPARATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; EPITHELIUM; FETAL CALF SERUM; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KERATINOCYTE; LANGERHANS CELL; ORGAN CULTURE; SKIN CULTURE; SKIN FIBROBLAST; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; THORAX SURGERY;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CELLS, CULTURED; FIBROBLASTS; HUMANS; KERATINOCYTES; MODELS, ANATOMIC; RATS; SKIN; SKIN PHYSIOLOGY; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; SKIN, ARTIFICIAL;

EID: 2442770051     PISSN: 03539504     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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