Innervation of tissue-engineered recombinant human collagen-based corneal substitutes: A comparative in vivo confocal microscopy study

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 49, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 3895-3902

  Lagali, Neil ^a   Griffith, May ^a,b   Fagerholm, Per ^c   Merrett, Kimberley ^a   Huynh, Melissa ^a   Munger, Rejean ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA EYE INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^c LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BIOMATERIAL; COLLAGEN IMPLANT; CORTICOSTEROID; PREDNISOLONE; PREDNISOLONE ACETATE; RECOMBINANT HUMAN COLLAGEN; RECOMBINANT HUMAN COLLAGEN TYPE 1; RECOMBINANT HUMAN COLLAGEN TYPE 3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; COLLAGEN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

ALLOGRAFT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BIOCOMPATIBILITY; COLLAGEN SYNTHESIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA; CORNEA DISEASE; CORNEA EPITHELIUM; CORNEA STROMA; CORNEA SURGERY; CORNEA TRANSPLANTATION; EYE; IMPLANTATION; IN VIVO STUDY; INNERVATION; MORPHOLOGY; NERVE; NERVE REGENERATION; NONHUMAN; OPTICAL DENSITY; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; POSTOPERATIVE INFLAMMATION; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SWINE; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TISSUE GRAFT; ALLOTRANSPLANTATION; ANIMAL; ARTIFICIAL ORGAN; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; OPTIC NERVE; PHYSIOLOGY; STANDARD; XENOGRAFT;

ANIMALS; ARTIFICIAL ORGANS; COLLAGEN; CORNEA; CORNEAL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; NERVE REGENERATION; OPTIC NERVE; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SWINE; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 53149147080     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.07-1354     Document Type: Article

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