A biomimetic scaffold for culturing limbal stem cells: A promising alternative for clinical transplantation

Journal of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 263-271

  Dravida, Subhadra ^a   Gaddipati, Subhash ^b   Griffith, May ^a,c   Merrett, Kim ^a   Madhira, Soundarya Lakshmi ^b   Sangwan, Virender S ^b   Vemuganti, Geeta K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA EYE INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b L V PRASAD EYE INSTITUTE   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biocompatible; Biomimetic; Explant culture; Limbal stem cells; Recombinant collagen cross linked scaffolds; Replacement grafts; Tissue engineering; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

BIOCOMPATIBILITY; BIODEGRADATION; BIOMIMETICS; CELL ENGINEERING; CLINICAL RESEARCH; COLLAGEN; CYTOLOGY; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HISTOLOGY; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SCAFFOLDS (BIOLOGY); TENSILE STRENGTH; TISSUE;

AMNIOTIC MEMBRANES; BIOMIMETIC SCAFFOLDS; EXPLANT CULTURE; LIMBAL STEM CELL; RECOMBINANT COLLAGEN CROSS-LINKED SCAFFOLD; RECOMBINANT COLLAGENS; REPLACEMENT GRAFT; STEM-CELL; TISSUES ENGINEERINGS; TRANSPLANTATION;

STEM CELLS;

BREAST CANCER RESISTANCE PROTEIN; CELL MARKER; PROTEIN P63;

AMNION; ARTICLE; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; BIOMIMETICS; CELL CULTURE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FREE SYSTEM; CELL GROWTH; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LIMB; LIMBAL STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; MICROBIAL GROWTH; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTION INDEX; TENSILE STRENGTH; TISSUE CULTURE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; CORNEA LIMBUS; CYTOLOGY; MOLECULAR MIMICRY; STEM CELL; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION;

CELLS, CULTURED; HUMANS; LIMBUS CORNEAE; MOLECULAR MIMICRY; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; STEM CELLS;

EID: 52649163900     PISSN: 19326254     EISSN: 19327005     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/term.91     Document Type: Article

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