Ophthalmology
Volume 114, Issue 6 , Pages 1080-1088, June 2007

Phenotypic Investigation of Human Eyes with Transplanted Autologous Cultivated Oral Mucosal Epithelial Sheets for Severe Ocular Surface Diseases

  • Takahiro Nakamura, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Ophthalmology, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan.
    • Research Center for Regenerative Medicine, Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan.
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence to Takahiro Nakamura MD, PhD, Department of Ophthalmology, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kawaramachi Hirokoji, Kamigyo-ku, Kyoto 602-0841 Japan.
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  • Tsutomu Inatomi, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Ophthalmology, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan.
    • ,
  • Leanne J. Cooper, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Biomedical Sciences, Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom.
    • ,
  • Helen Rigby, BSc

      Affiliations

    • Biomedical Sciences, Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom.
    • ,
  • Nigel J. Fullwood, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Biomedical Sciences, Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom.
    • ,
  • Shigeru Kinoshita, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Ophthalmology, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan.

Received 14 June 2006; accepted 28 September 2006. published online 01 February 2007.

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 Manuscript no. 2006-648.

 Supported in part by grants-in-aid for scientific research from the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Tokyo, Japan (no. H16–Saisei-007), and Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Tokyo, Japan (Kobe Translational Research Cluster); a research grant from the Kyoto Foundation for the Promotion of Medical Science, Kyoto, Japan; and the Intramural Research Fund of Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine.

 The authors have no financial or propriety interest in the products mentioned in the article.

PII: S0161-6420(06)01452-7

doi:10.1016/j.ophtha.2006.09.034

Ophthalmology
Volume 114, Issue 6 , Pages 1080-1088, June 2007

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