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ReviewAsian biomedicine : research, reviews and news2021

Wound healing of the corneal epithelium: a review.

Norzana Abd Ghafar, Nahdia Afiifah Abdul Jalil, Taty Anna Kamarudin

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Review in Asian biomedicine : research, reviews and news, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

20 citing papers in PubMed.

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  6. Blood Derivatives in the Therapy of Ocular Surface Diseases.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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  7. Engineered Tandem Thymosin Peptide Promotes Corneal Wound Healing.Investigative ophthalmology & visual science · 2025
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  14. Clinical anatomy: cornea and ocular surface.Medical hypothesis, discovery & innovation ophthalmology journal · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Norzana Abd GhafarPusat Perubatan Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, 56000 Cheras, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4913-9826
Nahdia Afiifah Abdul JalilDepartment of Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, 56000 Cheras, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1453-5412
Taty Anna KamarudinDepartment of Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, 56000 Cheras, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9599-2353

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The corneal epithelium (CE) forms the outermost layer of the cornea. Despite its thickness of only 50 μm, the CE plays a key role as an initial barrier against any insults to the eye and contributes to the light refraction onto the retina required for clear vision. In the event of an injury, the cornea is equipped with many strategies contributing to competent wound healing, including angiogenic and immune privileges, and mechanotransduction. Various factors, including growth factors, keratin, cytokines, integrins, crystallins, basement membrane, and gap junction proteins are involved in CE wound healing and serve as markers in the healing process. Studies of CE wound healing are advancing rapidly in tandem with the rise of corneal bioengineering, which employs limbal epithelial stem cells as the primary source of cells utilizing various types of biomaterials as substrates.

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corneacornealepitheliummarkersregenerationwound healing

Identifiers

PMID37551323
PMCPMC10388779

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