Keratocytes Derived from Spheroid Culture of Corneal Stromal Cells Resemble Tissue Resident Keratocytes

Yong-Soo Byun; Sapna Tibrewal; Eunjae Kim; Lisette Yco; Joy Sarkar; Yair Ivanir; Chia-Yang Liu; Cecile M. Sano; Sandeep Jain

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0112781

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Keratocytes Derived from Spheroid Culture of Corneal Stromal Cells Resemble Tissue Resident Keratocytes

Yong-Soo Byun,

Affiliations Corneal Neurobiology Laboratory, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Catholic Institute for Visual Science, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science, College of Medicine, Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea
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Sapna Tibrewal,

Affiliation Corneal Neurobiology Laboratory, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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Eunjae Kim,

Affiliation Corneal Neurobiology Laboratory, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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Lisette Yco,

Affiliations Corneal Neurobiology Laboratory, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Molecular Biosciences and Bioengineering, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America
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Joy Sarkar,

Affiliation Corneal Neurobiology Laboratory, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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Yair Ivanir,

Affiliation Corneal Neurobiology Laboratory, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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Chia-Yang Liu,

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, College of Medicine, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
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Cecile M. Sano,

Affiliation Corneal Neurobiology Laboratory, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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Sandeep Jain

* E-mail: jains@uic.edu

Affiliation Corneal Neurobiology Laboratory, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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Keratocytes Derived from Spheroid Culture of Corneal Stromal Cells Resemble Tissue Resident Keratocytes

Yong-Soo Byun,
Sapna Tibrewal,
Eunjae Kim,
Lisette Yco,
Joy Sarkar,
Yair Ivanir,
Chia-Yang Liu,
Cecile M. Sano,
Sandeep Jain

Published: November 10, 2014
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0112781

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