Cultivated limbal and oral mucosal epithelial transplantation

Seminars in Ophthalmology

Volumn 27, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 80-93

  Eslani, Medi ^a,b   Baradaran Rafii, Alireza ^b   Ahmad, Sajjad ^c  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cultivated limbal epithelial transplantation; Cultivated oral mucosal epithelial transplantation; Limbal stem cell deficiency; Limbal stem cells; Stem cell transplantation

Indexed keywords

STEROID;

AMNION; COMET ASSAY; CONJUNCTIVA; CORNEA LIMBUS; CORNEA TRANSPLANTATION; CULTURE OPTIMIZATION; EXPLANT; HUMAN; LIMBAL STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; MOUTH MUCOSA; NONHUMAN; ORAL BIOPSY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; STEM CELL;

CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELLS, CULTURED; CORNEAL DISEASES; EPITHELIUM; HUMANS; LIMBUS CORNEAE; MOUTH MUCOSA; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; STEM CELLS;

EID: 84863807791     PISSN: 08820538     EISSN: 17445205     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/08820538.2012.680641     Document Type: Review

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