Transplantation of bioengineered corneal epithelium for the treatment of total limbal stem cell deficiency in rabbit

Chinese Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 42, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 679-685

  Lin, Qi ^a   Lü, Lan ^b   Han, Bin ^b   Jin, Tao ^b  

^a CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Corneal diseases; Epithelium, corneal; Stem cell transplantation; Tissue engineering

Indexed keywords

FIBRIN; KERATIN ANTIBODY; MUCIN 5AC; PROTEIN P63;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL CELL CULTURE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOTRANSPLANTATION; BASAL CELL; BIOCOMPATIBILITY; CELL GROWTH; CELL ISOLATION; CONJUNCTIVA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA DISEASE; CORNEA EPITHELIUM; CORNEA LIMBUS; CORNEA NEOVASCULARIZATION; CORNEA OPACITY; CORNEAL BIOPSY; CYTOLOGY; EPITHELIUM CELL; GOBLET CELL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KERATECTOMY; LIMBAL STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PANNUS; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RABBIT; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; CORNEAL DISEASES; EPITHELIUM, CORNEAL; FEMALE; FIBRIN; GELS; LIMBUS CORNEAE; MALE; RABBITS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; STEM CELLS; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

EID: 33749608131     PISSN: 04124081     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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