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Ocular surface epithelial and stem cell development.
The International journal of developmental biology - 1 Jan 2004
Wolosin J Mario, Budak Murat T, Akinci M A Murat
Abstract excerpt
Phenotypic features and developmental events involved in the genesis of the limbo-corneal and conjunctival epithelia are described. Together, these two epithelia define the ocular surface. They derive from a small cohort of optic vesicle-induced PAX6+ head ectodermal cells that remain on the surface following lens vesicle formation by the main PAX6+ cell cohort. Both epithelia are stratified, and display wet,...
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