The porcine limbal epithelial stem cell niche as a new model for the study of transplanted tissue-engineered human limbal epithelial cells

Tissue Engineering - Part A

Volumn 17, Issue 5-6, 2011, Pages 741-750

  Notara, Maria ^a   Schrader, Stefan ^a   Daniels, Julie T ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b MOORFIELDS EYE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; DRUG PRODUCTS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STEM CELLS;

BASAL LAYER; CLINICAL VALUE; COLONY FORMING EFFICIENCIES; COMMON STRUCTURES; CORNEAL EPITHELIUM; EPITHELIAL CELLS; HUMAN CORNEA; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN-VITRO; INTEGRINS; MULTI-LAYERED; MULTILAYERING; NEW MODEL; PORCINE CORNEAS; STEM-CELL NICHES;

CELL CULTURE;

SUS;

ADHESIVE AGENT; BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL COUNT; CLONOGENIC ASSAY; CORNEA LIMBUS; CYTOLOGY; EPITHELIUM CELL; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; HUMAN; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE; PHENOTYPE; STEM CELL; STEM CELL NICHE; SWINE; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TRANSPLANTATION; ULTRASTRUCTURE; WOUND HEALING;

ADHESIVES; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CELL COUNT; COLONY-FORMING UNITS ASSAY; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; HUMANS; LIMBUS CORNEAE; MICE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHENOTYPE; STEM CELL NICHE; STEM CELLS; SUS SCROFA; TISSUE ENGINEERING; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 79952146222     PISSN: 19373341     EISSN: 1937335X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ten.tea.2010.0343     Document Type: Article

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