Production, sterilisation and storage of biodegradable electrospun PLGA membranes for delivery of limbal stem cells to the cornea

Procedia Engineering

Volumn 59, Issue , 2013, Pages 101-116

  Sefat, Farshid ^a   McKean, Robert ^b   Deshpande, Pallavi ^a   Ramachandran, Charanya ^c   Hill, Christopher J ^a   Sangwan, Virender S ^c   Ryan, Anthony J ^a   MacNeil, Sheila ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^c L V PRASAD EYE INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Cornea tissue engineering; Degradation; Electrospinning; PLGA membrane; Storage

Indexed keywords

EID: 84891705901     PISSN: 18777058     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.proeng.2013.05.099     Document Type: Conference Paper

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