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Bioimpacts. 2020;10(1): 45-54. doi: 10.15171/bi.2020.06
PMID: 31988856        PMCID: PMC6977591

Original Research

Propagation of limbal stem cells on polycaprolactone and polycaprolactone/gelatin fibrous scaffolds and transplantation in animal model

Fatemeh Sanie-Jahromi 1 ORCID, Masoomeh Eghtedari 1, Esmaeil Mirzaei 2, Mohammad Hassan Jalalpour 1, Zahra Asvar 2, Mahmood Nejabat 1 * ORCID, Fahimeh Javidi-Azad 3

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