Confocal microscopy of corneal wound healing after deep lamellar keratoplasty in rabbits

Archives of Ophthalmology

Volumn 128, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 75-80

  Abdelkader, Almamoun ^a   Elewah, El Sayed M ^a   Kaufman, Herbert E ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL DENSITY; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA CELL; CORNEA ENDOTHELIUM; CORNEA INJURY; CORNEA STROMA; DESCEMET MEMBRANE; NONHUMAN; PENETRATING KERATOPLASTY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; SCAR FORMATION; SURGICAL APPROACH; SUTURING METHOD; TISSUE GRAFT; VISUAL ACUITY; WOUND HEALING; ANIMAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORNEA; CORNEA TRANSPLANTATION; CYTOLOGY; DONOR; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FIBROBLAST; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CORNEA; CORNEAL STROMA; CORNEAL TRANSPLANTATION; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FIBROBLASTS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; RABBITS; TISSUE DONORS; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 75349093052     PISSN: 00039950     EISSN: 15383601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archophthalmol.2009.357     Document Type: Article

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