Comparison of porcine corneal decellularization methods and importance of preserving corneal limbus through decellularization

• Abdulkadir Isidan,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Transplant Division, Department of Surgery, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indianapolis, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6655-1268

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• Shaohui Liu,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Glick Eye Institute, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indianapolis, United States of America

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• Angela M. Chen,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Transplant Division, Department of Surgery, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indianapolis, United States of America

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• Wenjun Zhang,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Transplant Division, Department of Surgery, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indianapolis, United States of America

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• Ping Li,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Transplant Division, Department of Surgery, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indianapolis, United States of America

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• Lester J. Smith,

  Roles Methodology, Software, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations 3D Bioprinting Core, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indianapolis, United States of America, Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences, Indiana University of School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indianapolis, United States of America

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• Hidetaka Hara,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Xenotransplantation Program, Department of Surgery, University of Birmingham at Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

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• David K. C. Cooper,

  Roles Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Xenotransplantation Program, Department of Surgery, University of Birmingham at Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

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• Burcin Ekser

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: bekser@iupui.edu

  Affiliation Transplant Division, Department of Surgery, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indianapolis, United States of America

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