Adhesion structures of amniotic membranes integrated into human corneas

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1853-1861

  Resch, Miklós D ^a   Schlötzer Schrehardt, Ursula ^b   Hofmann Rummelt, Carmen ^b   Sauer, Renate ^b   Cursiefen, Claus ^b   Kruse, Friedrich E ^b   Beckmann, Matthias W ^b   Seitz, Berthold ^b  

^a SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA4 INTEGRIN; COLLAGEN TYPE 7; LAMININ;

ADULT; AGED; AMNION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA; DESMOSOME; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; CELL ADHESION; CELL COUNT; CORNEA DISEASE; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; HEMIDESMOSOME; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; PENETRATING KERATOPLASTY; PHYSIOLOGY; TRANSPLANTATION; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMNION; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; CELL ADHESION; CELL COUNT; COLLAGEN TYPE VII; CORNEA; CORNEAL DISEASES; DESMOSOMES; FEMALE; HEMIDESMOSOMES; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; INTEGRIN BETA4; KERATOPLASTY, PENETRATING; LAMININ; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 33744753377     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.05-0983     Document Type: Article

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