Donor and recipient endothelial cell population of the transplanted human cornea: A Two-dimensional imaging study

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1898-1904

  Lagali, Neil ^a   Stenevi, Ulf ^b   Claesson, Margareta ^b   Fagerholm, Per ^a   Hanson, Charles ^c   Weijdegård, Birgitta ^c   Strömbeck, Anne Sophie ^d  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^d UPPSALA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASTIGMATISM; CELL POPULATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONGENITAL CORNEA DYSTROPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA DYSTROPHY; CORNEA EDEMA; CORNEA ENDOTHELIUM; CORNEA TRANSPLANTATION; CORNEAL ENDOTHELIAL CELL LOSS; DONOR; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GRAFT PATENCY; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HERPES SIMPLEX KERATITIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMAGE ANALYSIS; KERATOCONUS; KERATOPATHY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME; CELL COUNT; CYTOLOGY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REOPERATION; TRANSPLANTATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CELL COUNT; CELL SURVIVAL; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, X; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; CORNEAL TRANSPLANTATION; ENDOTHELIUM, CORNEAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MALE; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REOPERATION; TISSUE DONORS; TRANSPLANTATION;

EID: 77951233061     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.09-4066     Document Type: Article

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