Advanced imaging and tissue engineering of the human limbal epithelial stem cell niche

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 1235, Issue , 2014, Pages 179-202

  Massie, Isobel ^a   Dziasko, Marc ^a   Kureshi, Alvena ^a   Levis, Hannah J ^a   Morgan, Louise ^a   Neale, Michael ^a   Sheth, Radhika ^a   Tovell, Victoria E ^a   Vernon, Amanda J ^a   Funderburgh, James L ^a   Daniels, Julie T ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

3View imaging; Corneal stromal stem cells; Immunohistochemistry; Limbal epithelial stem cell niche; Limbal epithelial stem cells; Limbal fibroblasts; Tissue engineering

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN;

ANTIGEN BINDING; ANTIGEN RETRIEVAL; ARTICLE; BIOSAFETY; CELL DENSITY; CELL ISOLATION; COLLAGEN DEGRADATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA LIMBUS; CYTOSKELETON; FIBROBLAST; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; HYDROGEL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIMBAL EPITHELIAL STEM CELL NICHE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STEM CELL NICHE; TENON CAPSULE; TISSUE ENGINEERING; CELL SEPARATION; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CORNEA EPITHELIUM; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; CYTOLOGY; PROCEDURES; STEM CELL;

CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELL SEPARATION; EPITHELIUM, CORNEAL; FIBROBLASTS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIMBUS CORNEAE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; STEM CELL NICHE; STEM CELLS; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

EID: 84921785924     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-1785-3_15     Document Type: Article

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