Keratinocyte growth factor accelerates corneal epithelial wound healing in vivo.

Existence of slow-cycling limbal epithelial basal cells that can be preferentially stimulated to proliferate: Implications on epithelial stem cells

1989 • 1,396 citations

Differentiation-related expression of a major 64K corneal keratin in vivo and in culture suggests limbal location of corneal epithelial stem cells.

1986 • 1,378 citations

Human KGF is FGF-Related with Properties of a Paracrine Effector of Epithelial Cell Growth

1989 • 989 citations

Purification and characterization of a newly identified growth factor specific for epithelial cells.

1989 • 842 citations

Large induction of keratinocyte growth factor expression in the dermis during wound healing.

1992 • 603 citations

Physicochemical Determinants of Drug Diffusion Across the Conjunctiva, Sclera, and Cornea

1987 • 196 citations

Paracellular permeability of corneal and conjunctival epithelia.

1989 • 193 citations

Hepatocyte growth factor, keratinocyte growth factor, their receptors, fibroblast growth factor receptor-2, and the cells of the cornea.

1993 • 186 citations

Limbal epithelium in ocular surface wound healing.

1982 • 116 citations

The mechanism of accelerated corneal epithelial healing by human epidermal growth factor.

1990 • 105 citations

Paracrine Role of Keratinocyte Growth Factor in Rabbit Corneal Epithelial Cell Growth

1994 • 85 citations

Growth Factors and Corneal Epithelium

1987 • 64 citations

PERMEABILITY OF RABBIT CORNEAL EPITHELIUM TO HORSERADISH PEROXIDASE AFTER THE INFLUENCE OF BENZALKONIUM CHLORIDE

1975 • 57 citations

Conjunctival epithelium in healing of corneal epithelial wounds.

1987 • 50 citations

Permeability of regenerated corneal epithelium

1975 • 20 citations

Expression of keratinocyte growth factor mRNA in ex vivo and in vitro specimens of human cornea and conjunctiva.

1994 • 14 citations