Expression of membrane-associated mucins in limbal stem cell deficiency and after transplantation of cultivated limbal epithelium

Current Eye Research

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 221-230

  Pauklin, Mikk ^a,b   Kakkassery, Vinodh ^a   Steuhl, Klaus P ^a   Meller, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Amniotic membrane; Corneal epithelium; ex vivo expansion; Limbal stem cells; Mucins

Indexed keywords

MUCIN; MUCIN 1; MUCIN 16; MUCIN 4; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AMNION; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONJUNCTIVA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA; CORNEA EPITHELIUM; EYE DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LIMBAL STEM CELL DEFICIENCY; LIMBAL STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; LIMBIC CORTEX; MALE; PANNUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ISOLATION;

ADULT; AMNION; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CA-125 ANTIGEN; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; CONJUNCTIVA; CORNEA; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; EPITHELIAL CELLS; EPITHELIUM, CORNEAL; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; HUMANS; LIMBUS CORNEAE; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MIDDLE AGED; MUCIN-1; MUCIN-4; MUCINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; STEM CELLS;

EID: 62249207217     PISSN: 02713683     EISSN: 14602202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02713680802699408     Document Type: Article

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