Putative rabbit conjunctival epithelial stem/progenitor cells preferentially reside in palpebral conjunctiva

Current Eye Research

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 797-803

  Su, Li ^a,b   Cui, Hongping ^a   Xu, Chong ^a   Xie, Xiuwen ^a   Chen, Qun ^c   Gao, Xinrui ^a  

^a TONGJI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

^b SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Shanghai Pudong New Area Gongli Hospital   (China)

Author keywords

Cell culture; Conjunctival epithelium; Palpebral conjunctiva; Proliferation; Stem cells

Indexed keywords

BROXURIDINE; CYCLINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL GROWTH; CELL MIGRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CLONOGENESIS; CONJUNCTIVA EPITHELIAL CELL; CONJUNCTIVA EPITHELIAL STEM CELL; CONJUNCTIVA EPITHELIUM; EPITHELIUM CELL; EXPERIMENTAL RABBIT; EYELID; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEM CELL;

ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; CELL GROWTH PROCESSES; CELL MOVEMENT; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELLS, CULTURED; CONJUNCTIVA; EPITHELIAL CELLS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; PROLIFERATING CELL NUCLEAR ANTIGEN; RABBITS; STEM CELLS;

EID: 80051980546     PISSN: 02713683     EISSN: 14602202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/02713683.2011.593727     Document Type: Article

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