Autologous transplantation of conjunctival epithelial cells cultured on amniotic membrane in a rabbit model

Molecular Vision

Volumn 13, Issue , 2007, Pages 1138-1143

  Ono, Kyoko ^a   Yokoo, Seiichi ^a   Mimura, Tatsuya ^a   Usui, Tomohiko ^a   Miyata, Kazunori ^b   Araie, Makoto ^a   Yamagami, Satoru ^a   Amano, Shiro ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b Miyata Eye Hospital   (Japan)

^c NONE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMNION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOLOGOUS STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CELL CULTURE; CONJUNCTIVA EPITHELIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA DISEASE; CORNEA NEOVASCULARIZATION; CORNEA OPACITY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; KERATECTOMY; LIMBAL STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; SCORING SYSTEM; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

3T3 CELLS; AMNION; ANIMALS; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELLS, CULTURED; CONJUNCTIVA; CORNEA; CORNEAL DISEASES; CORNEAL OPACITY; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HUMANS; LIMBUS CORNEAE; MICE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; RABBITS; STEM CELLS; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS;

EID: 34447567315     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10900535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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