Silk fibroin as a biomaterial substrate for corneal epithelial cell sheet generation

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 53, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 4130-4138

  Liu, Jingbo ^a   Lawrence, Brian D ^a   Liu, Aihong ^a   Schwab, Ivan R ^b   Oliveira, Lauro A ^c   Rosenblatt, Mark I ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SILK FIBROIN; BIOMATERIAL; FIBROIN;

AMNION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BOMBYX MORI; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CORNEA EPITHELIUM; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ANIMAL; CELL CULTURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORNEA LIMBUS; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECT; METHODOLOGY; TISSUE ENGINEERING; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELLS, CULTURED; EPITHELIUM, CORNEAL; FIBROINS; HUMANS; LIMBUS CORNEAE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; RABBITS; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

EID: 84871858029     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.12-9876     Document Type: Article

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