Effect of limbal explant orientation on the histology, phenotype, ultrastructure and barrier function of cultured limbal epithelial cells

Acta Ophthalmologica Scandinavica

Volumn 85, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 377-386

  Raeder, Sten ^a   Utheim, Tor Paaske ^a   Utheim, Øygunn Aass ^a   Cai, Yiqing ^a   Roald, Borghild ^b   Lyberg, Torstein ^b   Kjeldsen kragh, Jens ^b   Ramstad, Hanne ^a   Messelt, Edvard ^a   Nicolaissen Jr , Bjørn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b ULLEVÅL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Cell culture; Corneal epithelium; Limbalexplant; Ocular surface reconstruction; Tissue engineering; Dgr; Np63

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER RESISTANCE PROTEIN; CONNEXIN 43; CYTOKERATIN; CYTOKERATIN 3; DELTA N PROTEIN P63 ALPHA; HORSERADISH PEROXIDASE; ISOPROTEIN; PROTEIN P63; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AMNION; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA EPITHELIUM; CORNEA LIMBUS; CORNEA STROMA; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; DESMOSOME; EPITHELIUM CELL; EXPLANT; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MICROSCOPIC ANATOMY; PERMEABILITY BARRIER; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; WESTERN BLOTTING;

EID: 34250194597     PISSN: 13953907     EISSN: 16000420     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0420.2006.00873.x     Document Type: Article

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