A contact lens-based technique for expansion and transplantation of autologous epithelial progenitors for ocular surface reconstruction

Transplantation

Volumn 87, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1571-1578

  Di Girolamo, Nick ^a,c   Bosch, Martina ^b,c   Zamora, Katherine ^b   Coroneo, Minas T ^b   Wakefield, Denis ^a   Watson, Stephanie L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b PRINCE OF WALES HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cornea; Culture; Limbus; Stem cells

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; MITOMYCIN C; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; AGED; ANIRIDIA; ARTICLE; AUTOLOGOUS STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; CONJUNCTIVA; CONJUNCTIVA TUMOR; CONTACT LENS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA; CORNEA LIMBUS; EYE TUMOR; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LIMBAL STEM CELL DEFICIENCY; MALE; MELANOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEM CELL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; ANIRIDIA; AUSTRALIA; BIOPSY; COLONY-FORMING UNITS ASSAY; CORNEAL DISEASES; EPITHELIAL CELLS; EPITHELIUM, CORNEAL; EYE NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISOANTIBODIES; LENSES, INTRAOCULAR; MALE; MELANOMA; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; TISSUE EXPANSION; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 67649616499     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TP.0b013e3181a4bbf2     Document Type: Article

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