UV absorbance of a bioengineered corneal stroma substitute in the 240-400 nm range

Cornea

Volumn 29, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 895-898

  Ionescu, Ana Maria ^a   De La Cruz Cardona, Juan ^a   González Andrades, Miguel ^a,b   Alaminos, Miguel ^a   Campos, Antonio ^a   Hita, Enrique ^a   Del Mar Pérez, María ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO SAN CECILIO   (Spain)

Author keywords

absorbance; corneal stroma; tissue engineering; UV radiation

Indexed keywords

AGAROSE; FIBRIN; TRANEXAMIC ACID; BIOMATERIAL; SEPHAROSE;

ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CORNEA; CORNEA CELL; CORNEA STROMA; CORNEA THICKNESS; CULTURE MEDIUM; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MICROSCOPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; TISSUE ENGINEERING; ULTRAVIOLET A RADIATION; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; ARTIFICIAL ORGAN; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; FIBROBLAST; PROCEDURES; RADIATION RESPONSE; TISSUE SCAFFOLD; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

ARTIFICIAL ORGANS; BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; CORNEAL STROMA; FIBRIN; FIBROBLASTS; HUMANS; SEPHAROSE; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ULTRAVIOLET; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TISSUE SCAFFOLDS; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 77955173812     PISSN: 02773740     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ICO.0b013e3181ca3650     Document Type: Article

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