Molecular profile of organ culture-stored corneal epithelium: LGR5 is a potential new phenotypic marker of residual human corneal limbal epithelial stem cells

International Journal of Molecular Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 871-876

  Brzeszczynska, Joanna ^a   Ramaesh, Kanna ^c   Dhillon, Bal ^b   Ross, James A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b PRINCESS ALEXANDRA EYE PAVILION   (United Kingdom)

^c GARTNAVEL GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cornea; Epithelium; LGR5; Limbus; Stem cells

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ACTIN; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; BIOLOGICAL MARKER LGR5; BREAST CANCER RESISTANCE PROTEIN; CYTOKERATIN; PROTEIN P63; PROTEIN P63 ALPHA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIMENTIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CELL ISOLATION; CELL POPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA EPITHELIUM; CORNEA LIMBUS; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; ORGAN CULTURE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SQUAMOUS CELL METAPLASIA; STEM CELL;

ACTINS; ADULT STEM CELLS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CELLS, CULTURED; EPITHELIUM, CORNEAL; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; LIMBUS CORNEAE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; OXIDATIVE STRESS; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; RNA, MESSENGER; TISSUE PRESERVATION; VIMENTIN;

EID: 84858222353     PISSN: 11073756     EISSN: 1791244X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3892/ijmm.2012.904     Document Type: Article

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