Transcriptional Dissection of Human Limbal Niche Compartments by Massive Parallel Sequencing

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Bath, Chris ^a,b   Muttuvelu, Danson ^a   Emmersen, Jeppe ^b   Vorum, Henrik ^a   Hjortdal, Jesper ^c   Zachar, Vladimir ^b  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN LRIG1; REGULATOR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX9; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR 1;

ARTICLE; BASAL LIMBAL CRYPT; CORNEA; CORNEA EPITHELIUM; CORNEA LIMBUS; CORNEA STROMA; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LASER CAPTURE MICRODISSECTION; LIMBAL EPITHELIAL STEM CELL; RNA SEQUENCE; SFLT1 GENE; STEM CELL; SUPERFICIAL LIMBAL CRYPT; UPREGULATION;

GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HUMANS; LIMBUS CORNEAE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84878086004     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0064244     Document Type: Article

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