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François Majo1, Ariane Rochat, Michael Nicolas

  • 1Laboratory of Stem Cell Dynamics, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), 1015 Lausanne CH, Switzerland.

Nature
|October 3, 2008
PubMed
まとめ

角膜の幹細胞は,先の概念に異議を唱えて,辺縁にのみ位置していない. この研究では,角膜の再生に不可欠な幹細胞が,他の上皮質と同様に,眼の表面全体に含まれていることが明らかになりました.

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