Morphological and immunohistochemical changes after corneal cross-linking

Cornea

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 111-117

  Messmer, Elisabeth M ^a   Meyer, Peter ^b   Herwig, Martina C ^b   Loeffler, Karin U ^c   Schirra, Frank ^d   Seitz, Berthold ^d   Thiel, Michael ^e   Reinhard, Thomas ^f   Kampik, Anselm ^a   Auw Haedrich, Claudia ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY EYE CLINIC   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BONN   (Germany)

^d SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e Eye Hospital   (Switzerland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

corneal cross linking; keratoconus; keratocytes

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN BAX; PROTEIN BCL 2; RIBOFLAVIN; SMOOTH MUSCLE ACTIN; SURVIVIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA CELL; CORNEA PERFORATION; CORNEA STROMA; CORNEA THICKNESS; CORNEA TRANSPLANTATION; CORNEAL CROSS LINKING; CROSS LINKING; ENDOTHELIUM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMPLANTATION; KERATOCONUS; KERATOPLASTY; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MORPHOLOGY; PHOTOREFRACTIVE KERATECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VISUAL ACUITY;

ACTINS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BCL-X PROTEIN; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; COLLAGEN; CORNEAL KERATOCYTES; CORNEAL STROMA; CROSS-LINKING REAGENTS; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, DIRECT; HUMANS; INHIBITOR OF APOPTOSIS PROTEINS; KERATOCONUS; KERATOPLASTY, PENETRATING; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTOSENSITIZING AGENTS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; RIBOFLAVIN; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84872936114     PISSN: 02773740     EISSN: 15364798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ICO.0b013e31824d701b     Document Type: Article

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