Delayed loss of corneal epithelial stem cells in a chemical injury model associated with limbal stem cell deficiency in rabbits

Current Eye Research

Volumn 36, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1098-1107

  Kadar, Tamar ^a   Horwitz, Vered ^a   Sahar, Rita ^a   Cohen, Maayan ^a   Cohen, Liat ^a   Gez, Rellie ^a   Tveria, Liat ^a   Gutman, Hila ^a   Buch, Hillel ^a   Fishbine, Eliezer ^a   Brandeis, Rachel ^a   Dachir, Shlomit ^a   Amir, Adina ^a  

^a ISRAEL INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Israel)

Author keywords

Chemical burn; Cornea; Epithelial stem cells; Rabbit; Sulfur mustard

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER RESISTANCE PROTEIN; BROXURIDINE; CELL MARKER; MUSTARD GAS; PROTEIN P63;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTERIOR EYE SEGMENT; ARTICLE; CELL LABELING; CHEMICAL INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA EPITHELIUM; CORNEA EROSION; CORNEA INJURY; CORNEA LIMBUS; CORNEA NEOVASCULARIZATION; CORNEAL ENDOTHELIAL CELL LOSS; CYTOTOXICITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INJURY SEVERITY; KERATITIS; LIMBAL STEM CELL DEFICIENCY; LIMBAL STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PACHYMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; SLIT LAMP; WOUND HEALING;

ANIMALS; BURNS, CHEMICAL; CELL COUNT; CELL CYCLE; CELLS, CULTURED; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EPITHELIUM, CORNEAL; EYE BURNS; FEMALE; LIMBUS CORNEAE; RABBITS; STEM CELLS;

EID: 81255142802     PISSN: 02713683     EISSN: 14602202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/02713683.2011.609305     Document Type: Article

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