...Resmi A. Charalel; Kristin Engberg; Jaan Noolandi; Jennifer R. Cochran; Curtis Frank; Christopher N. Ta Aims: To determine the rate of diffusion of myoglobin and bovine serum albumin (BSA) through the human cornea. These small proteins have hydrodynamic diameters of approximately 4.4 and 7.2 nm...

...Kiyoo Nakayasu; Minoru Tanaka; Hiroshi Konomi; Toshihiko Hayashi By using type-specific antibodies to types I, II, III, IV and V collagens, distribution of distinct types of collagen in normal human cornea as well as keratoconus cornea were examined by indirect immunofluorescence microscopy...

..., FRG Key Words. Corneal transplantation Organ culture Cryopreservation Corneal endothelium Human cornea Endothelial viability Abstract. A simple method for freezing cultured human donor material with dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) was developed empirically in a commercially available...

...R. Praus; I. Brettschneider Human corneas were analyzed for glycosaminoglycans during various stages of embryonic development and at different postnatal ages. The development and aging of the cornea was accompanied by a transient increase of glycosaminoglycan hexosamine up to 2 years of age...

...Barry R. Masters; Matthias Böhnke This paper reviews the literature from 1990 to 2000 and evaluates the seminal investigations performed with the confocal microscope on the in vivo human cornea. Our pedagogical technique is to illustrate both the advantages and the problems associated with occular...