A Native-Like Corneal Construct Using Donor Corneal Stroma for Tissue Engineering

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Lin, Jing ^a,b   Yoon, Kyung Chul ^a,c   Zhang, Lili ^a,b   Su, Zhitao ^a   Lu, Rong ^a   Ma, Ping ^a   de Paiva, Cintia S ^a   Pflugfelder, Stephen C ^a   Li, De Quan ^a  

^a CULLEN EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b QINGDAO UNIVERSITY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (China)

^c Chonnam National University Medical School   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER RESISTANCE PROTEIN; CONNEXIN 43; CYTOKERATIN 3; INVOLUCRIN; PROTEIN P63;

ADULT; AGED; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA EPITHELIUM; CORNEA STROMA; CORNEA TRANSPLANTATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IN VIVO STUDY; MORPHOLOGY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ORGAN DONOR; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; TISSUE ENGINEERING; WOUND HEALING;

ADULT; AGED; ANIMALS; CORNEAL STROMA; CORNEAL TRANSPLANTATION; EPITHELIAL CELLS; EPITHELIUM, CORNEAL; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, NUDE; MIDDLE AGED; PHENOTYPE; STEM CELLS; TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUES; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS; WOUND HEALING; YOUNG ADULT;

MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 84869204035     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0049571     Document Type: Article

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