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The human limbus functions as an instructive epithelial transition zone

2026-06-24

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<title>Abstract</title> <p> The corneal and conjunctival epithelia have traditionally been regarded as distinct lineages separated by the limbus, a specialized niche proposed to enforce irreversible corneal identity through a hierarchically organized limbal stem cell compartment <sup>1–3</sup> . In this prevailing model, conjunctivalization of the cornea reflects failure of a lineage barrier. Here, we show tha...

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Literature Corpus work: c971b262-09ed-5082-8557-d1561a7154cb
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-9948733/v1

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