Comparison of intact and denuded amniotic membrane as a substrate for cell-suspension culture of human limbal epithelial cells

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 245, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 123-134

  Koizumi, Noriko ^a,b   Rigby, Helen ^c   Fullwood, Nigel J ^c   Kawasaki, Satoshi ^b   Tanioka, Hidetoshi ^b   Koizumi, Kan ^b   Kociok, Norbert ^d   Joussen, Antonia M ^d   Kinoshita, Shigeru ^b  

^a DOSHISHA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amniotic membrane; Cell suspension; Limbal epithelial cell culture

Indexed keywords

ALPHA6 INTEGRIN; BETA4 INTEGRIN; COLLAGEN TYPE 7; DISPASE; KALININ; MITOMYCIN C;

AMNION CELL; ARTICLE; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; CELL ADHESION; CELL CULTURE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL GROWTH; CELL STRAIN 3T3; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL SUSPENSION; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; COCULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA LIMBUS; DESMOSOME; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; INTERCELLULAR SPACE; MONOLAYER CULTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROMA CELL; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

3T3 CELLS; AMNION; ANIMALS; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; CELL ADHESION; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; EPITHELIAL CELLS; EPITHELIUM, CORNEAL; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX PROTEINS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; HUMANS; LIMBUS CORNEAE; MICE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; STEM CELLS;

EID: 34248641668     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00417-005-0095-3     Document Type: Article

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