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ArticleInternational journal of molecular sciences2023

Efficient Isolation and Expansion of Limbal Melanocytes for Tissue Engineering.

Naresh Polisetti, Thomas Reinhard, Günther Schlunck

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Article in International journal of molecular sciences, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 2 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Multiple Stem/Progenitor Cells Isolated from the Limbus.Current stem cell research & therapy · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Naresh PolisettiEye Center, Medical Center, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, 79106 Freiburg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-8669-0388
Thomas ReinhardEye Center, Medical Center, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, 79106 Freiburg, Germany.
Günther SchlunckEye Center, Medical Center, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, 79106 Freiburg, Germany.
University of Freiburg · DE

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Limbal melanocytes (LMs) are found in the corneoscleral limbus basal epithelial layer and interact with neighboring limbal epithelial progenitor cells. The difficulty of isolating and cultivating LMs is due to the small fraction of LMs in the overall limbal population and the frequent contamination of primary cultures by other cell types. This has limited the research on freshly isolated LMs and the investigation of their biological significance in the maintenance of the limbal stem cell niche. Here, we describe an optimized protocol for the efficient isolation and expansion of LMs from cadaveric corneal limbal tissue using CD90 and CD117 as selective markers in fluorescence-activated cell sorting to obtain a pure population of LMs (CD90

Indexed as

Epithelium, CornealLimbus CorneaeCells, CulturedHumansMelanocytesProteomicsStem CellsTissue Engineeringexpansionflow sortingisolationlimbal melanocyteslimbal niche cellslimbal stem cellsmelanin-producing cells

Identifiers

PMID37175529
PMCPMC10177947
OpenAlexW4367053101

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