The collagen suprafamily: from biosynthesis to advanced biomaterial development

A Sorushanova, LM Delgado, Z Wu… - Advanced …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Collagen is the oldest and most abundant extracellular matrix protein that has found many
applications in food, cosmetic, pharmaceutical, and biomedical industries. First, an overview …

Designing scaffolds for corneal regeneration

M Ahearne, J Fernández‐Pérez… - Advanced Functional …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Corneal blindness is one of the most common causes of vision loss worldwide, affecting
millions of people. To treat these patients, researchers have been examining different …

Concise review: stem cells in the corneal stroma

N Pinnamaneni, JL Funderburgh - Stem cells, 2012 - academic.oup.com
The cornea is a tough transparent tissue admitting and focusing light in the eye. More than
90% of the cornea is stroma, a highly organized, transparent connective tissue maintained …

Macromolecular crowding meets tissue engineering by self‐assembly: A paradigm shift in regenerative medicine

A Satyam, P Kumar, X Fan, A Gorelov… - Advanced …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Macromolecular Crowding Meets Tissue Engineering by Self‐Assembly: A Paradigm Shift in
Regenerative Medicine - Satyam - 2014 - Advanced Materials - Wiley Online Library Skip to …

Corneal opacity: cell biological determinants of the transition from transparency to transient haze to scarring fibrosis, and resolution, after injury

SE Wilson, LP Sampaio, TM Shiju… - … & Visual Science, 2022 - iovs.arvojournals.org
Purpose: To highlight the cellular, matrix, and hydration changes associated with opacity
that occurs in the corneal stroma after injury. Methods: Review of the literature. Results: The …

Wounding the cornea to learn how it heals

MA Stepp, JD Zieske, V Trinkaus-Randall… - Experimental eye …, 2014 - Elsevier
Corneal wound healing studies have a long history and rich literature that describes the data
obtained over the past 70 years using many different species of animals and methods of …

Stem cells in the limbal stroma

JL Funderburgh, ML Funderburgh, Y Du - The ocular surface, 2016 - Elsevier
The corneal stroma contains a population of mesenchymal cells subjacent to the limbal
basement membrane with characteristics of adult stem cells. These 'niche cells' support …

Prelude to corneal tissue engineering–gaining control of collagen organization

JW Ruberti, JD Zieske - Progress in retinal and eye research, 2008 - Elsevier
By most standard engineering practice principles, it is premature to credibly discuss the
“engineering” of a human cornea. A professional design engineer would assert that we still …

Macromolecularly crowded in vitro microenvironments accelerate the production of extracellular matrix-rich supramolecular assemblies

P Kumar, A Satyam, X Fan, E Collin, Y Rochev… - Scientific reports, 2015 - nature.com
Therapeutic strategies based on the principles of tissue engineering by self-assembly put
forward the notion that functional regeneration can be achieved by utilising the inherent …

Alternatives to eye bank native tissue for corneal stromal replacement

I Brunette, CJ Roberts, F Vidal… - Progress in retinal and …, 2017 - Elsevier
Corneal blindness is a major cause of blindness in the world and corneal transplantation is
the only widely accepted treatment to restore sight in these eyes. However, it is becoming …