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A new isolation method of human limbal progenitor cells by maintaining close association with their niche cells.
Tissue engineering. Part C, Methods - 1 May 2011
Chen Szu-Yu, Hayashida Yasutaka, Chen Mei-Yun, Xie Hua Tao, Tseng Scheffer C G
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In human corneal epithelium, self-renewal and fate decision of stem cells are highly regulated in a niche microenvironment called palisades of Vogt in the limbus. Herein, we discovered that digestion with dispase, which cleaves off the basement membrane, did not remove the entire basal epithelial progenitor cells. In contrast, digestion with collagenase isolated on cluster consisting of not only entire epithelial...
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