Simplifying corneal surface regeneration using a biodegradable synthetic membrane and limbal tissue explants

Biomaterials

Volumn 34, Issue 21, 2013, Pages 5088-5106

  Deshpande, Pallavi ^a   Ramachandran, Charanya ^b   Sefat, Farshid ^a   Mariappan, Indumathi ^b   Johnson, Claire ^a   McKean, Robert ^c   Hannah, Melanie ^a   Sangwan, Virender S ^b   Claeyssens, Frederik ^a   Ryan, Anthony J ^a   MacNeil, Sheila ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b L V PRASAD EYE INSTITUTE   (India)

^c RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cornea; Degradation; Membrane; Stem cell; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

AMNIOTIC MEMBRANES; BIODEGRADABLE MEMBRANE; CORNEA; EPITHELIAL CELLS; GAMMA IRRADIATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LABORATORY FACILITIES; SYNTHETIC MEMBRANES;

CELL CULTURE; CELL PROLIFERATION; COPOLYMERS; DEGRADATION; MEMBRANES; STEM CELLS; TISSUE; TISSUE REGENERATION; TRANSPLANTATION (SURGICAL);

ELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS;

FIBRIN; POLYGLACTIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL GROWTH; CELL TRANSFER; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPITHELIUM CELL; EX VIVO STUDY; EXPLANT; FEEDER CELL; FIBROBLAST; GAMMA IRRADIATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN VITRO STUDY; LIMBAL EPITHELIAL CELL; LIMBAL TISSUE EXPLANT; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STORAGE TEMPERATURE;

AMNION; ANIMALS; BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SEPARATION; CELLS, CULTURED; EPITHELIAL CELLS; GAMMA RAYS; HUMANS; HUMIDITY; LACTIC ACID; LIMBUS CORNEAE; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; POLYGLYCOLIC ACID; RABBITS; REGENERATION; STAINING AND LABELING; STERILIZATION; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SUSPENSIONS; TEMPERATURE; TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUES; WETTABILITY;

ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 84877020280     PISSN: 01429612     EISSN: 18785905     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2013.03.064     Document Type: Article

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