Tissue-Regenerating, Vision-Restoring Corneal Epithelial Stem Cells

Stem Cell Reviews and Reports

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 256-268

  Echevarria, Timothy Jerome ^a   Di Girolamo, Nick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Contact lens; Epithelial cells; Limbus; Ocular surface; Stem cells

Indexed keywords

ADULT STEM CELL; AUTOTRANSPLANTATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CORNEA DISEASE; CORNEA EPITHELIUM; CORNEA LIMBUS; CYTOLOGY; EPITHELIUM CELL; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; PATHOLOGY; REVIEW; TRANSPLANTATION;

ADULT STEM CELLS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CORNEAL DISEASES; EPITHELIAL CELLS; EPITHELIUM, CORNEAL; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELLS; HUMANS; LIMBUS CORNEAE; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELLS; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS;

EID: 79955045966     PISSN: 15508943     EISSN: 15586804     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12015-010-9199-1     Document Type: Review

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