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Tissue engineering of corneal stroma via melt electrowriting.
Journal of tissue engineering and regenerative medicine - 1 Oct 2021
Gao Qi, Xie Jiajun, Salero Enrique, Nuñez Del Prado Zelmira, Hutmacher Dietmar W, Ye Juan, De Juan-Pardo Elena M, Sabater Alfonso L, Perez Victor L
Abstract excerpt
The cornea serves as the main refractive component of the eye with the corneal stroma constituting the thickest component in a stratified layered system of epithelia, stroma, and endothelium. Current treatment options for patients suffering from corneal diseases are limited to transplantation of a human donor cornea (keratoplasty) or to implantation of an artificial cornea (keratoprosthesis). Nevertheless, donor...
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