Localization of candidate stem and progenitor cell markers within the human cornea, limbus, and bulbar conjunctiva in vivo and in cell culture

Anatomical Record - Part A Discoveries in Molecular, Cellular, and Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 288, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 921-931

  Vascotto, Sandy Gian ^a   Griffith, May ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA EYE INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bulbar conjunctiva; Cell culture; Immunohistochemistry; Limbus; Progenitor cell; Stem cell

Indexed keywords

ALPHA6 INTEGRIN; BETA1 INTEGRIN; BETA4 INTEGRIN; BREAST CANCER RESISTANCE PROTEIN; CD31 ANTIGEN; CELL MARKER; CYTOKERATIN; GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; HYALURONIC ACID; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; STEM CELL FACTOR; TELOMERASE; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA RECEPTOR 1; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR RECEPTOR;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONJUNCTIVA; CORNEA; CORNEA EPITHELIUM; CORNEA LIMBUS; EPITHELIUM CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEM CELL;

ADULT; AGED; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLS, CULTURED; CONJUNCTIVA; CORNEA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTEGRINS; KERATINS; LIMBUS CORNEAE; MIDDLE AGED; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-KIT; RECEPTORS, GROWTH FACTOR; STEM CELLS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEINS;

EID: 33747096225     PISSN: 0003276X     EISSN: 15524892     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.a.20346     Document Type: Article

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