Morphological characteristics of the limbal epithelial crypt

British Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 91, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 514-519

  Shanmuganathan, Vijay A ^b   Foster, Toshana ^b   Kulkarni, Bina B ^b   Hopkinson, Andrew ^b   Gray, Trevor ^a   Powe, Des G ^a   Lowe, James ^a   Dua, Harminder S ^a,b  

^a QUEEN S MEDICAL CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; CD34 ANTIGEN; CONNEXIN 43; KI 67 ANTIGEN; VIMENTIN;

ARTICLE; CD34 SELECTION; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CORNEA EPITHELIUM; CORNEA LIMBUS; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; LIMBAL EPITHELIAL CRYPT; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STEM CELL; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CELL SIZE; CONNEXIN 43; EPITHELIUM, CORNEAL; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEINS; LIMBUS CORNEAE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; STEM CELLS;

EID: 34247190037     PISSN: 00071161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bjo.2006.102640     Document Type: Article

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