Open AccessCorneal Repair with Adhesive Cell Sheets of Fetal Cartilage-Derived Stem Cells
Author(s) -
In-Su Park,
Byeong Kook Kim,
Minh-Dung Truong,
Hyun Seung Yang,
Sang-Hyug Park,
Hyo Soon Park,
Byung Hyune Choi,
Bae Hie Won,
ByoungHyun Min
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
jo'jig gonghag gwa jaesaeng uihag/tissue engineering and regenerative medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.719
H-Index - 23
eISSN - 2212-5469
pISSN - 1738-2696
DOI - 10.1007/s13770-020-00317-w
Subject(s) - stem cell , cornea , pathology , chemistry , anatomy , biology , microbiology and biotechnology , medicine , ophthalmology
Corneal scarring or disease may lead to severe corneal opacification and consequently, severe loss of vision due to the complete loss of corneal epithelial cells. We studied the use of epithelial cell sheets differentiated from fetal cartilage-derived stem cells (FCSC) to resurface damaged cornea.