Hypoxia enhances the expansion of human limbal epithelial progenitor cells in vitro

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 48, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 3586-3593

  Miyashita, Hideyuki ^a   Higa, Kazunari ^a,b   Kato, Naoko ^a   Kawakita, Tetsuya ^b   Yoshida, Satoru ^a,b   Tsubota, Kazuo ^a,b   Shimmura, Shigeto ^a,b  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO DENTAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INVOLUCRIN; KI 67 ANTIGEN; PROTEIN P63; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CARBON DIOXIDE; OXYGEN;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL EXPANSION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA LIMBUS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOXIA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN VITRO STUDY; NICK END LABELING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STAINING; STEM CELL; WESTERN BLOTTING; CELL CULTURE; CELL DIVISION; CELL HYPOXIA; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECT; EPITHELIUM CELL; EYEBANK; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

APOPTOSIS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CARBON DIOXIDE; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELL CYCLE; CELL DIVISION; CELL HYPOXIA; CELLS, CULTURED; EPITHELIAL CELLS; EYE BANKS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMANS; LIMBUS CORNEAE; OXYGEN; STEM CELLS;

EID: 34648831748     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.07-0077     Document Type: Article

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