Transplantation of tissue-engineered epithelial cell sheets after excimer laser photoablation reduces postoperative corneal haze

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 552-557

  Hayashida, Yasutaka ^a   Nishida, Kohji ^a   Yamato, Masayuki ^b   Yang, Joseph ^b   Sugiyama, Hiroaki ^a   Watanabe, Katsuhiko ^a   Hori, Yuichi ^a   Maeda, Naoyuki ^a   Kikuchi, Akihiko ^b   Okano, Teruo ^b   Tano, Yasuo ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^b TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA; CORNEA CELL; EPITHELIUM CELL; EXCIMER LASER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KERATECTOMY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TISSUE ENGINEERING; ANIMAL; COCULTURE; CORNEA EPITHELIUM; CORNEA OPACITY; FIBROBLAST; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; PHOTOREFRACTIVE KERATECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RABBIT; TRANSPLANTATION;

ACTIN; COLLAGEN TYPE 3;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; COLLAGEN TYPE III; CORNEA; CORNEAL OPACITY; EPITHELIAL CELLS; EPITHELIUM, CORNEAL; FIBROBLASTS; KERATECTOMY, PHOTOREFRACTIVE, EXCIMER LASER; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RABBITS; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

EID: 33644870465     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.05-0995     Document Type: Article

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