Sterility control and long-term eye-bank storage of cultured human limbal epithelial cells for transplantation

British Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 93, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 980-983

  Utheim, T P ^a,b   Raeder, S ^a,b   Utheim, O A ^b   De La Paz, M ^c   Roald, B ^a   Lyberg, T ^a  

^a ULLEVÅL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c INSTITUT UNIVERSITARI BARRAQUER   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMNION; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA LIMBUS; CULTURE MEDIUM; EPITHELIUM CELL; EYEBANK; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LIMBAL STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STORAGE; TISSUE PRESERVATION;

CELLS, CULTURED; CORNEAL DISEASES; CULTURE MEDIA; EPITHELIAL CELLS; EPITHELIUM, CORNEAL; EYE BANKS; HUMANS; LIMBUS CORNEAE; ORGAN PRESERVATION; STAINING AND LABELING; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; STERILIZATION; TISSUE SURVIVAL;

EID: 67649655580     PISSN: 00071161     EISSN: 14682079     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bjo.2008.149591     Document Type: Article

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