Optimizing the deswelling process of organ-cultured corneas

Cornea

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 524-529

  Wolf, Armin H ^a   Welge Lüen, Ulrich C ^a   Priglinger, Siegfried ^b   Kook, Daniel ^a   Grueterich, Martin ^a   Hartmann, Kathrin ^a   Kampik, Anselm ^a   Neubauer, Aljoscha S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b KEPLER UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Austria)

Author keywords

Cornea; Deswelling; Endothelium; Organ culture; Storage; Thickness

Indexed keywords

DEXTRAN;

ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CELL LOSS; CORNEA ENDOTHELIUM; CORNEA PRESERVATION; CORNEA THICKNESS; CULTURE OPTIMIZATION; CYTOTOXICITY; DESWELLING PROCESS; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TIME;

CELL DEATH; CORNEA; CORNEAL EDEMA; DEXTRANS; ENDOTHELIUM, CORNEAL; HUMANS; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE PRESERVATION; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 67650599164     PISSN: 02773740     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ICO.0b013e3181901dde     Document Type: Article

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