Limbal epithelial crypt: A model for corneal epithelial maintenance and novel limbal regional variations

Archives of Ophthalmology

Volumn 126, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 665-669

  Yeung, Aaron Ming Hon ^a   Schlötzer Schrehardt, Ursula ^b   Kulkarni, Bina ^a   Tint, Naing L ^a   Hopkinson, Andrew ^a   Dua, Harminder S ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^c QUEEN S MEDICAL CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL MEMBRANE PROTEIN; DESMOGLEIN 3; SCLEROPROTEIN; TENASCIN;

ARTICLE; CORNEA EPITHELIUM; CORNEA LIMBUS; CRYPT CELL; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; STROMA CELL;

DESMOGLEIN 3; EPITHELIAL CELLS; EPITHELIUM, CORNEAL; EYE PROTEINS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; HUMANS; LIMBUS CORNEAE; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; REGENERATION; STEM CELLS; TENASCIN;

EID: 43549121501     PISSN: 00039950     EISSN: 00039950     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archopht.126.5.665     Document Type: Article

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