Reconstruction of corneal epithelium with cryopreserved corneal limbal stem cells in a goat model

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 75, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1607-1616

  Mi, Shengli ^a   Yang, Xueyi ^b   Zhao, Qingmei ^a   Qu, Lei ^c   Chen, Shuming ^a   Meek, Keith M ^d   Dou, Zhongying ^a  

^a NORTHWEST A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b LUOYANG NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c YULIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Allograft; Amniotic membrane; Cryopreservation; Limbal stem cells

Indexed keywords

LIQUID NITROGEN; PYROXYLIN;

AMNION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL EXPANSION; CORNEA DISEASE; CORNEA EPITHELIUM; CORNEA LIMBUS; CRYOPRESERVATION; DISEASE MODEL; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GOAT; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIMBAL STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASTIC SURGERY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SRY GENE; THAWING; THERAPY EFFECT;

AMNION; ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; CORNEAL DISEASES; CORNEAL TRANSPLANTATION; CRYOPRESERVATION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EPITHELIUM, CORNEAL; FEMALE; GOATS; HUMANS; LIMBUS CORNEAE; MALE; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

CAPRA HIRCUS;

EID: 53049104237     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: 10982795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrd.20900     Document Type: Article

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