Histologic Features of Transplanted Amniotic Membrane: Implications for Corneal Wound Healing

Ophthalmology

Volumn 116, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1287-1295

  Said, Dalia G ^a,b   Nubile, Mario ^c   Alomar, Thaer ^a   Hopkinson, Andy ^a   Gray, Trevor ^a   Lowe, James ^a   Dua, Harminder S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF OPHTHALMOLOGY   (Egypt)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA SMOOTH MUSCLE ACTIN; CD34 ANTIGEN; VIMENTIN;

ADULT; AGED; AMNION; ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; CELL MIGRATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLLAGEN SYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA EPITHELIUM; CORNEA TRANSPLANTATION; DESMOSOME; FEMALE; HEMIDESMOSOME; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOLOGY; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; KERATOPATHY; MALE; PENETRATING KERATOPLASTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; WOUND HEALING;

ACTINS; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMNION; ANTIGENS, CD34; CELL ADHESION; CELL MOVEMENT; CORNEAL DISEASES; CORNEAL STROMA; EPITHELIUM, CORNEAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; KERATOPLASTY, PENETRATING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; VIMENTIN; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 67649363473     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2009.01.034     Document Type: Article

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