In vivo confocal laser-scanning microscopy to characterize wound repair in rabbit corneas after collagen cross-linking

Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 899-909

  Hovakimyan, Marine ^a   Guthoff, Rudolf ^a   Reichard, Maria ^a   Wree, Andreas ^a   Nolte, Ingo ^b   Stachs, Oliver ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Collagen cross linking; in vivo confocal laser scanning microscopy; Wound repair

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; RIBOFLAVIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BASAL CELL; BOWMAN MEMBRANE; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL DENSITY; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA; CORNEA CELL; CORNEA EPITHELIUM; CORNEA STROMA; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; IN VIVO STUDY; NERVE FIBER REGENERATION; NONHUMAN; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; PROTEIN CROSS LINKING; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RABBIT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRAVIOLET A RADIATION; WOUND HEALING;

ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; COLLAGEN; CORNEAL KERATOCYTES; CORNEAL STROMA; CROSS-LINKING REAGENTS; ENDOTHELIUM, CORNEAL; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; NERVE FIBERS; NERVE REGENERATION; OPHTHALMIC NERVE; PHOTOSENSITIZING AGENTS; RABBITS; RIBOFLAVIN; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 82955175526     PISSN: 14426404     EISSN: 14429071     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-9071.2011.02634.x     Document Type: Article

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