Preservation of the limbal stem cell phenotype by appropriate culture techniques

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 765-774

  Meyer Blazejewska, Ewa Anna ^a   Kruse, Friedrich E ^a   Bitterer, Katrin ^a   Meyer, Christian ^b   Hofmann Rummelt, Carmen ^a   Wünsch, Peter H ^b   Schlötzer Schrehardt, Ursula ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b Institute of Pathology   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BMI1 PROTEIN; BREAST CANCER RESISTANCE PROTEIN; CALCIUM; CYTOKERATIN 15; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; FIBRIN; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; PROTEIN P63; PROTEIN P63ALPHA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CELL DENSITY; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL GROWTH; CELL ISOLATION; CELL STRUCTURE; COLONY FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA EPITHELIUM; CORNEA LIMBUS; CULTURE MEDIUM; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN CELL CULTURE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIMBAL STEM CELL; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEM CELL; AGING; ANIMAL; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SEPARATION; CELL STRAIN 3T3; CELL SURVIVAL; COCULTURE; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; CYTOLOGY; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MOUSE; PHYSIOLOGY;

3T3 CELLS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SEPARATION; CELL SURVIVAL; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; CULTURE MEDIA; EPITHELIUM, CORNEAL; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; HUMANS; LIMBUS CORNEAE; MICE; MIDDLE AGED; PHENOTYPE; STEM CELLS;

EID: 77449101292     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.09-4109     Document Type: Article

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