Corneal stromal cells (keratocytes) express thrombospondins 2 and 3 in wound repair phenotype.

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Members of the thrombospondin (TSP) family of proteins have been implicated in wound healing. The cells of the corneal stroma (keratocytes) are capable of synthesising TSP-1 in a wound repair phenotype, but do not appear to produce the protein in the normal human adult cornea. We employed reverse-transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) to determine whether human corneal stromal cells can express TSPs...

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