Acute wound healing in the human central corneal epithelium appears to be independent of limbal stem cell influence

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 49, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 5279-5286

  Chang, Chuan Yuan ^a   Green, Colin R ^a   McGhee, Charles N J ^a   Sherwin, Trevor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; BREAST CANCER RESISTANCE PROTEIN; BROXURIDINE; CONNEXIN 43; KI 67 ANTIGEN; PROTEIN P63; ABC TRANSPORTER; ABCG2 PROTEIN, HUMAN; CKAP4 PROTEIN, HUMAN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; TUMOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGED; ARTICLE; CELL DENSITY; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CENTRIFUGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA EPITHELIUM; CORNEA LIMBUS; DESQUAMATION; EXCIMER LASER; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STEM CELL; TISSUE REGENERATION; WOUND HEALING; CELL COUNT; CELL MOTION; CORNEA; CYTOLOGY; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUE; PHYSIOLOGY; REGENERATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CELL COUNT; CELL MOVEMENT; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONNEXIN 43; CORNEA; EPITHELIUM, CORNEAL; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; HUMANS; KI-67 ANTIGEN; LASERS, EXCIMER; LIMBUS CORNEAE; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; REGENERATION; STEM CELLS; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 58149253135     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.07-1260     Document Type: Article

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