Preserving Basement Membranes during Detachment of Cultivated Oral Mucosal Epithelial Cell Sheets for the Treatment of Total Bilateral Limbal Stem Cell Deficiency

Total bilateral limbal stem cell deficiency leading to loss of corneal clarity, potential vision loss, pain, photophobia, and keratoplasty failure cannot be treated by autologous limbal transplantation, and allogeneic limbal transplantation requires subsequent immunosuppressive treatment. Cultured a...

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Main Authors: Marie-Rose Rovere, Patricia Rousselle, Marek Haftek, Bruce Charleux, Viridiana Kocaba, Céline Auxenfans, Serge Nataf, Odile Damour
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2018-02-01
Series:Cell Transplantation
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/0963689717741140