Cultivation and differentiation characteristics of human limbal progenitor cells

Tissue and Cell

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 83-88

  Vossmerbaeumer, Urs ^a   Kuehl, Sandra ^a,b   Bieback, Karen ^b   Klüter, Harald ^b   Jonas, Jost B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b MEDICAL FACULTY MANNHEIM HEIDELBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Corneal cell replacement; Corneal limbus; Corneal progenitor cells; Corneal stem cells; Transient amplifying cells

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; BROXURIDINE; CYTOKERATIN 18; CYTOKERATIN 8; FLUORESCEIN ISOTHIOCYANATE; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; MICROTUBULE ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; NESTIN; PROTEIN P63;

ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA; CORNEA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN CELL CULTURE; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IN VITRO STUDY; MITOSIS; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SCLERA; STEM CELL;

EID: 39749127821     PISSN: 00408166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tice.2007.09.005     Document Type: Article

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