Sterilized, Freeze-Dried Amniotic Membrane: A Useful Substrate for Ocular Surface Reconstruction

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 93-99

  Nakamura, Takahiro ^a   Yoshitani, Makoto ^b   Rigby, Helen ^c   Fullwood, Nigel J ^c   Ito, Wakana ^a   Inatomi, Tsutomu ^a   Sotozono, Chie ^a   Nakamura, Tatsuo ^b   Shimizu, Yasuhiko ^b   Kinoshita, Shigeru ^a  

^a KYOTO PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMNION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; AUTOTRANSPLANTATION; CELL CULTURE; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CORNEA EPITHELIUM; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EPITHELIUM CELL; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FREEZE DRYING; GAMMA IRRADIATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MECHANICAL STRESS; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; STRETCHING;

AMNION; ANIMALS; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; CORNEAL DISEASES; EPITHELIAL CELLS; EPITHELIUM, CORNEAL; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX PROTEINS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FREEZE DRYING; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; RABBITS; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; STERILIZATION;

EID: 9144250370     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.03-0752     Document Type: Article

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