Open AccessEffect of air-lifting on the stemness, junctional protein formation, and cytokeratin expression of in vitro cultivated limbal epithelial cell sheets
Author(s) -
Lily Wei Chen,
Yanming Chen,
Chia-Ju Lu,
Mei-Yun Chen,
Szu-Yuan Lin,
Fung-Rong Hu,
Weili Chen
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
taiwan journal of ophthalmology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.519
H-Index - 9
eISSN - 2211-5072
pISSN - 2211-5056
DOI - 10.4103/tjo.tjo_101_17
Subject(s) - cytokeratin , confocal microscopy , in vitro , confocal , microbiology and biotechnology , pathology , stem cell , epithelium , biology , anatomy , chemistry , immunohistochemistry , medicine , biochemistry , geometry , mathematics
The aim of this study is to evaluate the effects of air-lifting on the stemness, junctional protein formation, and cytokeratin expression of rabbit limbal stem cells cultivated in vitro , and to find out the proper timing of air-lifting before transplantation as limbal epithelial cell sheets for the treatment of limbal insufficiency.