In vitro culture and expansion of human limbal epithelial cells

Nature Protocols

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1470-1479

  Mariappan, Indumathi ^a   Maddileti, Savitri ^a   Savy, Soumya ^a   Tiwari, Shubha ^a   Gaddipati, Subhash ^a   Fatima, Anees ^b   Sangwan, Virender S ^a   Balasubramanian, Dorairajan ^a   Vemuganti, Geeta K ^a  

^a L V PRASAD EYE INSTITUTE   (India)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RECOMBINANT ENZYME; RECOMBINANT GROWTH FACTOR; TRYPSIN;

AMNION; ARTICLE; CELL EXPANSION; CORNEA CELL; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; DISSOCIATION; EPITHELIUM CELL; EXPLANT; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN CELL CULTURE; HUMAN TISSUE; IN VITRO STUDY; MONOLAYER CULTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERUM;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 77955179585     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2010.115     Document Type: Article

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