Generation of a biomimetic human artificial cornea model using wharton's jelly mesenchymal stem cells

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 55, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 4073-4083

  Garzón, Ingrid ^a   Martín Piedra, Miguel Angel ^a   Alfonso Rodríguez, Camilo ^a   Gonźalez Andrades, Miguel ^a,b   Carriel, Victor ^a   Martínez Gómez, Carlos ^a   Campos, Antonio ^a   Alaminos, Miguel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO SAN CECILIO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cornea; Corneal epithelial like cells; Human umbilical cord Wharton's jelly cells; Tissue engineering; Transdifferentiation

Indexed keywords

ALPHA CRYSTALLIN; BETA CRYSTALLIN; CYCLIC GMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; FIBRIN AGAROSE SCAFFOLD; PROTEIN ZO1; TISSUE SCAFFOLD; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIMENTIN;

ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA; EPITHELIOID CELL; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPE; HISTOCHEMISTRY; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN ARTIFICIAL CORNEA; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; WHARTON JELLY;

CORNEA; CORNEAL EPITHELIAL-LIKE CELLS; HUMAN UMBILICAL CORD WHARTON'S JELLY CELLS; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TRANSDIFFERENTIATION;

BIOMIMETIC MATERIALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLS, CULTURED; CORNEAL TRANSPLANTATION; EPITHELIUM, CORNEAL; GUIDED TISSUE REGENERATION; HUMANS; KERATINOCYTES; MESENCHYMAL STROMAL CELLS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; TISSUE ENGINEERING; WHARTON JELLY;

EID: 84903976187     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.14-14304     Document Type: Article

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