A new model for limbal transplantation using E-GFP for follow-up of transplant survival

Experimental Eye Research

Volumn 83, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1188-1195

  Keijser, S ^a   de Keizer, R J W ^a   Prins, F A ^a   Tanke, H J ^a   van Rooijen, N ^b   Vrensen, G F J M ^a   Jager, M J ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

animal model; enhanced green fluorescent protein; in vivo; limbus; macrophage; transplantation

Indexed keywords

CLODRONIC ACID; ENHANCED GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; LIPOSOME;

ACCURACY; ALLOGRAFT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; CELL INFILTRATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA LIMBUS; CORNEA TRANSPLANTATION; DONOR SITE; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; EYE SURGERY; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; IMMUNOGENICITY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; ISOGRAFT; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; MACROPHAGE ACTIVATION; NONHUMAN; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RAT STRAIN; SURFACE PROPERTY; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CLODRONIC ACID; CORNEAL TRANSPLANTATION; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIMBUS CORNEAE; LIPOSOMES; LUMINESCENT AGENTS; LYMPHOCYTES; MACROPHAGES; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MODELS, ANIMAL; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 33748694508     PISSN: 00144835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exer.2006.06.006     Document Type: Article

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