Human corneal epithelial equivalents for ocular surface reconstruction in a complete serum-free culture system without unknown factors

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 2438-2443

  Yokoo, Seiichi ^a   Yamagami, Satoru ^a   Usui, Tomohiko ^a   Amano, Shiro ^a   Araie, Makoto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKERATIN 12; CYTOKERATIN 3; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; GROWTH FACTOR;

ADULT; AMNION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL PROLIFERATION; COLORIMETRY; CORNEA EPITHELIUM; CULTURE MEDIUM; DESMOSOME; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DONOR; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FIBROBLAST; FOLLOW UP; HEMIDESMOSOME; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROSCOPY; MICROVILLUS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; RECIPIENT; RISK; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPE; SERUM; ANIMAL; CELL STRAIN 3T3; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; COCULTURE; CORNEA DISEASE; CORNEA LIMBUS; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; CYTOLOGY; EPITHELIUM CELL; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; TRANSPLANTATION; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

3T3 CELLS; ADULT; AMNION; ANIMALS; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; CORNEAL DISEASES; CULTURE MEDIA, SERUM-FREE; EPITHELIAL CELLS; EPITHELIUM, CORNEAL; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; HUMANS; KERATIN-12; KERATIN-3; LIMBUS CORNEAE; MICE; MIDDLE AGED; RABBITS; TISSUE DONORS;

EID: 47249146845     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.06-1448     Document Type: Article

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