Comparison of the effect of amniotic membrane suspension and autologous serum on alkaline corneal epithelial wound healing in the rabbit model

Cornea

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1148-1150

  Shahriari, H A ^a   Famil Tokhmehchi, Mohammad Reza ^a,b   Hashemi, N F ^a  

^a ZAHEDAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b ZAHEDAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Alkaline corneal epithelial wound healing; Amniotic membrane suspension; Autologous serum

Indexed keywords

ALKALI; ARTIFICIAL TEAR; EYE DROPS; PRESERVATIVE; SODIUM HYDROXIDE;

AMNION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CORNEA EPITHELIUM; CORNEA INJURY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; RANDOMIZATION; SERUM; SLIT LAMP; SUSPENSION; WOUND CLOSURE; WOUND HEALING; ANIMAL; BANDAGE; CHEMICAL BURN; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EYE BURN; EYE INJURY; HUMAN; INJURY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; TIME;

ALKALIES; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL DRESSINGS; BURNS, CHEMICAL; EPITHELIUM, CORNEAL; EYE BURNS; EYE INJURIES; HUMANS; OPHTHALMIC SOLUTIONS; RABBITS; SERUM; TIME FACTORS; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 60749122171     PISSN: 02773740     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ICO.0b013e318173138a     Document Type: Article

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