Interleukin-13 maintains the stemness of conjunctival epithelial cell cultures prepared from human limbal explants

• Andrea Stadnikova ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Andrea Stadnikova, Peter Trosan

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Laboratory of the Biology and Pathology of the Eye, Institute of Biology and Medical Genetics, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University and General University Hospital in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic

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• Peter Trosan ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Andrea Stadnikova, Peter Trosan

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Laboratory of the Biology and Pathology of the Eye, Institute of Biology and Medical Genetics, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University and General University Hospital in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic

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• Pavlina Skalicka,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University and General University Hospital in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic

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• Tor Paaske Utheim,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Medical Biochemistry, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway, Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway

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• Katerina Jirsova

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: katerina.jirsova@lf1.cuni.cz

  Affiliation Laboratory of the Biology and Pathology of the Eye, Institute of Biology and Medical Genetics, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University and General University Hospital in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4625-6701

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