Determining the depth of injury in bioengineered tissue models of cornea and conjunctiva for the prediction of all three ocular GHS categories

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2014, Pages

  Zorn Kruppa, Michaela ^a   Houdek, Pia ^a   Wladykowski, Ewa ^a   Engelke, Maria ^b   Bartok, Melinda ^b   Mewes, Karsten R ^c   Moll, Ingrid ^a   Brner, Johanna M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

^c HENKEL KGAA   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CELL VIABILITY; CONJUNCTIVA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA; CORNEA CELL; CYTOTOXICITY; EX VIVO STUDY; EYE IRRITATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TISSUE ENGINEERING; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL LINE; DRUG EFFECTS; EYE INJURY; INJURIES; LEPORIDAE;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CONJUNCTIVA; CORNEA; EYE INJURIES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RABBITS; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

EID: 84916614197     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0114181     Document Type: Article

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