Corneal reconstruction with tissue-engineered cell sheets composed of human immature dental pulp stem cells

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1408-1414

  Gomes, José Álvaro Pereira ^a   Monteiro, Bábyla Geraldes ^a,b   Melo, Gustavo Barreto ^a   Smith, Ricardo Luiz ^a   da Silva, Marcelo Cavenaghi Pereira ^a   Lizier, Nelson Foresto ^a,b   Kerkis, Alexandre ^c   Cerruti, Humberto ^d   Kerkis, Irina ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO BUTANTAN   (Brazil)

^c Centro de Inovação Tecnológica   (Brazil)

^d Reproducao Humana Roger Abdelmassih   (Brazil)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL BURN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA INJURY; CORNEA NEOVASCULARIZATION; CORNEA SURGERY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KERATECTOMY; LIMBAL STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PANNUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; TOOTH PULP; ULTRASTRUCTURE; ANIMAL; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; CORNEA DISEASE; CORNEA LIMBUS; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; CYTOLOGY; DISEASE MODEL; EYE BURN; EYE SURGERY; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; PATHOLOGY; PLASTIC SURGERY; RABBIT; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; XENOGRAFT;

ANIMALS; BURNS, CHEMICAL; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CORNEAL DISEASES; DENTAL PULP; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EYE BURNS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; HUMANS; LIMBUS CORNEAE; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELLS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; OPHTHALMOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RABBITS; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS;

EID: 77949880704     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.09-4029     Document Type: Article

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