Long-term maintenance of limbal epithelial progenitor cells using rho kinase inhibitor and keratinocyte growth factor

Stem Cells Translational Medicine

Volumn 2, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 758-765

  Miyashita, Hideyuki ^a   Yokoo, Seiichi ^b   Yoshida, Satoru ^a   Kawakita, Tetsuya ^a   Yamagami, Satoru ^b   Tsubota, Kazuo ^a   Shimmura, Shigeto ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adult stem cells; Cell culture; Colony formation; Differentiation; Experimental models; Long term repopulation; Stem cell culture

Indexed keywords

4 (1 AMINOETHYL) N (4 PYRIDYL) CYCLOHEXANECARBOXAMIDE; CADHERIN; CELL MARKER; KERATINOCYTE GROWTH FACTOR; PROTEIN P63; RHO KINASE INHIBITOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX6; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL STRUCTURE; COLONY FORMATION; CORNEA EPITHELIUM; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; PHASE CONTRAST MICROSCOPY; PRIMARY CELL CULTURE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

EID: 84884800634     PISSN: 21576564     EISSN: 21576580     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5966/sctm.2012-0156     Document Type: Article

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