Technique of cultivating limbal derived corneal epithelium on human amniotic membrane for clinical transplantation

Journal of Postgraduate Medicine

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 257-261

  Fatima, A ^a   Sangwan, V S ^a   Iftekhar, G ^a   Reddy, P ^a   Matalia, H ^a   Balasubramanian, D ^a   Vemuganti, G K ^a  

^a L V PRASAD EYE INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Corneal epithelium; Limbus corneae; Stem cell transplantation

Indexed keywords

AMNION; ARTICLE; CELL GROWTH; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA EPITHELIUM; CORNEA LIMBUS; CORNEA TRANSPLANTATION; CULTURE MEDIUM; EXPLANT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; IN VITRO STUDY; LIMBAL STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; MONOLAYER CULTURE; TISSUE CULTURE;

AMNION; EPITHELIUM, CORNEAL; HUMANS; LIMBUS CORNEAE; TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUES;

EID: 33845254086     PISSN: 00223859     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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