Corneal Tissue Engineering: Recent Advances and Future Perspectives

Tissue Engineering - Part B: Reviews

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 278-287

  Ghezzi, Chiara E ^a   Rnjak Kovacina, Jelena ^a,b   Kaplan, David L ^a  

^a Tufts University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TISSUE ENGINEERING;

ANIMAL TESTING; COMMERCIAL PRODUCTS; CORNEAL TISSUE ENGINEERING; CORNEAL TISSUES; FUTURE PERSPECTIVES; RECENT PROGRESS; SYNTHETIC MATERIALS; TISSUE SUBSTITUTE;

TISSUE;

ARTICLE; CORNEA; CORNEA ENDOTHELIUM; CORNEA EPITHELIUM; CORNEA STROMA; CORNEA THICKNESS; CORNEAL INNERVATION; EYE PROTECTION; EYE REFRACTION; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; INNERVATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL ANATOMY; TISSUE ENGINEERING; ANIMAL; PROCEDURES; TRENDS;

ANIMALIA;

ANIMALS; CORNEA; HUMANS; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

EID: 84929731525     PISSN: 19373368     EISSN: 19373376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ten.teb.2014.0397     Document Type: Article

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