Tracing the fate of limbal epithelial progenitor cells in the murine cornea

Stem Cells

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 157-169

  Di Girolamo, N ^a   Bobba, S ^a   Raviraj, V ^b   Delic, N C ^b   Slapetova, I ^a   Nicovich, P R ^a   Halliday, G M ^b   Wakefield, D ^a   Whan, R ^a   Lyons, J G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Centripetal migration; Cornea; Limbus; Lineage tracing

Indexed keywords

CRE RECOMBINASE; CYTOKERATIN 14;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FATE; CELL MIGRATION; CELL MOTION; CERVICAL SPINE DISLOCATION; CLONAL EVOLUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA CELL; CORNEA EPITHELIUM; EPITHELIUM CELL; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; KERATINOCYTE; LIMBAL EPITHELIAL PROGENITOR CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROGENY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STEM CELL; WOUND HEALING; ANIMAL; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; C57BL MOUSE; CORNEA; CYTOLOGY; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; MURINAE; MUS;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CORNEA; EPITHELIAL CELLS; EPITHELIUM, CORNEAL; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; STEM CELLS;

EID: 84919457793     PISSN: 10665099     EISSN: 15494918     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/stem.1769     Document Type: Article

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