Characterization of wound reepithelialization using a new human tissue-engineered corneal wound healing model

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1376-1385

  Carrier, Patrick ^a,b   Deschambeault, Alexandre ^a,b   Talbot, Mariève ^a,b   Giasson, Claude J ^a,c   Auger, François A ^a,b   Guérin, Sylvain L ^a,b   Germain, Lucie ^a,b  

^a LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBRIN; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; INTEGRIN;

ARTICLE; CELL MIGRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA INJURY; CORNEAL BIOPSY; EPITHELIZATION; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TISSUE ENGINEERING; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL CULTURE; CORNEA; CORNEA EPITHELIUM; DRUG EFFECT; FIBROBLAST; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; INJURY; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; ULTRASTRUCTURE; WOUND HEALING;

BASEMENT MEMBRANE; CELLS, CULTURED; CORNEA; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; EPITHELIUM, CORNEAL; FIBRIN; FIBROBLASTS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; HUMANS; INTEGRINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; TISSUE ENGINEERING; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 45549091489     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.07-0904     Document Type: Article

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