Air toxicity for primary human-cultured corneal endothelial cells: An in vitro model

Cornea

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Kopsachilis, Nikolaos ^a   Tsaousis, Konstantinos T ^b   Tsinopoulos, Ioannis T ^b   Welge Luessen, Ulrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

air toxicity; big bubble deep anterior lamellar keratoplasty; cell viability; corneal endothelium

Indexed keywords

AIR EXPOSURE; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL ISOLATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL VIABILITY; CORNEA ENDOTHELIUM; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 84875230055     PISSN: 02773740     EISSN: 15364798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ICO.0b013e31826895f8.     Document Type: Article

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