Use of a silk fibroin-chitosan scaffold to construct a tissue-engineered corneal stroma

Cells Tissues Organs

Volumn 198, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 190-197

  Guan, Linan ^a   Ge, Hongyan ^a   Tang, Xianling ^a   Su, Sheng ^a   Tian, Pei ^a   Xiao, Nan ^a   Zhang, Hong ^a   Zhang, Lu ^a   Liu, Ping ^a  

^a HARBIN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Chitosan; Cornea transplantation; Corneal epithelial cells; Corneal stromal cells; Silk fibroin; Tissue engineering

Indexed keywords

CHITOSAN; SILK FIBROIN; TISSUE SCAFFOLD; VIMENTIN; CYTOKERATIN 12; CYTOKERATIN 3;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOCOMPATIBILITY; BIODEGRADABILITY; CELL COUNTING; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA CELL; CORNEA EPITHELIUM; CORNEA IMPLANT; CORNEA STROMA; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; CYTOTOXICITY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HISTOLOGY; IMMUNITY; IMPLANTATION; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; TISSUE ENGINEERING; CELL INFILTRATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CELL VIABILITY; CORNEA STROMA CELL; CORNEAL EPITHELIAL CELL; EPITHELIUM CELL; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MONONUCLEAR CELL; PRIMARY CELL CULTURE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TISSUE SCAFFOLD; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

ANIMALS; CHITOSAN; CORNEA; CORNEAL STROMA; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FIBROINS; RABBITS; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TISSUE SCAFFOLDS;

EID: 84898400182     PISSN: 14226405     EISSN: 14226421     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000355944     Document Type: Article

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