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ArticleSaudi journal of ophthalmology : official journal of the Saudi Ophthalmological Society2011

Limbal stem cell disease: Treatment and advances in technology.

Hall F Chew

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Article in Saudi journal of ophthalmology : official journal of the Saudi Ophthalmological Society, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Dry eye disease in mice activates adaptive corneal epithelial regeneration distinct from constitutive renewal in homeostasis.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Hall F ChewDepartment of Ophthalmology and Vision Sciences, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4N 3M5.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Anterior segment stem cell technology, due to its already well-defined corneal limbal stem cells with greater ease of evaluation, has been at the forefront of ophthalmic stem cell treatment and technology since 1997. This paper provides an overview of the current standard of care for treatment of limbal stem-cell deficient conditions and reviews recent treatment technologies using ex vivo expansion of cultivated limbal stem cells of the cornea.

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CorneaCultured cellsLimbal stem cell deficiencyStem cell transplantation

Identifiers

PMID23960927
PMCPMC3729922

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