Type VI collagen is present in human and bovine vitreous

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Preparing Porcine Eyes for Confocal Reflectance Microscopy to Visualize the Vitreous Collagen Fiber Network
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P Bishop1, S Ayad, A Reardon

  • 1Department of Ophthalmology, Royal Eye Hospital, Manchester, UK.

Graefe'S Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology = Albrecht Von Graefes Archiv Fur Klinische Und Experimentelle Ophthalmologie
|November 1, 1996
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