Silk fibroin in ocular tissue reconstruction

Biomaterials

Volumn 32, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 2445-2458

  Harkin, Damien G ^a,b   George, Karina A ^a,b   Madden, Peter W ^b,c   Schwab, Ivan R ^b,d   Hutmacher, Dietmar W ^a   Chirila, Traian V ^a,b,c  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b QUEENSLAND EYE INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cornea; Fibroin; Retina; Silk; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

BLOOD-RETINAL BARRIER; CELL TYPES; CORNEA; CORNEAL STROMA; EX-VIVO; FIBROIN; HUMAN EYE; MANUFACTURING PROCESS; MANUFACTURING PRODUCTS; OCULAR TISSUE; RETINA; SILK FIBROIN; STRUCTURAL ASSEMBLIES; STRUCTURAL PROTEINS; TRANSPLANTATION;

BIOCOMPATIBILITY; MANUFACTURE; TISSUE; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

SILK;

SILK FIBROIN;

ARTICLE; BLOOD RETINA BARRIER; CORNEA ENDOTHELIUM; CORNEA LIMBUS; CORNEA STROMA; EYE; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

ANIMALS; BIOENGINEERING; EYE; FIBROINS; HUMANS; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

EID: 79251597266     PISSN: 01429612     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2010.12.041     Document Type: Article

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