Location of corneal epithelial stem cells

Nature

Volumn 463, Issue 7284, 2010, Pages

  Sun, Tung Tien ^a   Tseng, Scheffer C ^b   Lavker, Robert M ^c  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b OCULAR SURFACE CENTER   (United States)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKERATIN 12; CYTOKERATIN 3; KERATIN;

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL GROWTH; CELL LINEAGE; CELL MIGRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONJUNCTIVA; CORNEA EPITHELIUM; CORNEA LIMBUS; GOBLET CELL; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL MOVEMENT; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONJUNCTIVA; EPITHELIUM, CORNEAL; GOBLET CELLS; HUMANS; LIMBUS CORNEAE; MICE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RABBITS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SHEEP; STEM CELLS; SWINE;

EID: 77649139368     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature08805     Document Type: Note

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