Characterization of the limbal epithelial stem cell niche: Novel imaging techniques permit in vivo observation and targeted biopsy of limbal epithelial stem cells

Stem Cells

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1402-1409

  Shortt, Alex J ^a,b   Secker, Genevieve A ^a   Munro, Peter M ^a   Khaw, Peng T ^a,b   Tuft, Stephen J ^a,b   Daniels, Julie T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b MOORFIELDS EYE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cornea; Human; Limbus cornea; Somatic stem cell biology; Stem cell; Stem cell transplantation; Three dimensional imaging

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER RESISTANCE PROTEIN; PROTEIN P63;

ARTICLE; CELL POPULATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA LIMBUS; CORNEAL BIOPSY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IN VIVO STUDY; LIMBAL STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ADULT STEM CELLS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY; CELL SIZE; CELLS, CULTURED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EPITHELIUM, CORNEAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIMBUS CORNEAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STROMAL CELLS;

EID: 34547093396     PISSN: 10665099     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1634/stemcells.2006-0580     Document Type: Article

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