Transplantation of a tissue-engineered corneal endothelium reconstructed on a devitalized carrier in the feline model

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 2686-2694

  Proulx, Stéphanie ^a,b   Bensaoula, Thouria ^c   Nada, Ossama ^c   Audet, Caroline ^a,b   Uwamaliya, Jeanne D'arc ^a,b   Devaux, Angèle ^d   Brunette, Isabelle ^c,d,e   Germain, Lucie ^a,b  

^a LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MONTREAL   (Canada)

^d MAISONNEUVE ROSEMONT HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^e Maisonneuve Rosemont Hospital ^*  (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE (POTASSIUM SODIUM); ALIZARIN RED S; BICARBONATE SODIUM COTRANSPORTER; PROTEIN ZO1; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PHOSPHOPROTEIN; TISSUE SCAFFOLD; ZONULA OCCLUDENS 1 PROTEIN; ZONULA OCCLUDENS-1 PROTEIN;

ALLOGRAFT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOGRAFT; CAT; CELL CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA ENDOTHELIUM; CORNEA OPACITY; CORNEA THICKNESS; CORNEA TRANSPLANTATION; DESCEMET MEMBRANE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; NONHUMAN; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SLIT LAMP; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASTRUCTURE; XENOGRAFT; ADULT; AGED; ALLOTRANSPLANTATION; ANIMAL; AUTOTRANSPLANTATION; CELL COUNT; CORNEA STROMA; CYTOLOGY; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; TRANSPLANTATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; CATS; CELL COUNT; CELLS, CULTURED; CORNEAL STROMA; CORNEAL TRANSPLANTATION; DESCEMET MEMBRANE; ENDOTHELIUM, CORNEAL; HUMANS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; SODIUM-BICARBONATE SYMPORTERS; SODIUM-POTASSIUM-EXCHANGING ATPASE; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TISSUE SCAFFOLDS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 66849111206     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.08-2793     Document Type: Article

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