Supported by the Key Clinical Program of the Ministry of Health of China (Grant No. 2004468);the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 30672275);Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province (Grant No. 06300679);the Post-doctor Foundation of China (Grant No. 2005037616)
Bioengineered corneas are substitutes for human donor tissue that are designed to treat severe dis-ease affecting ocular surfaces. However,a shortage of candidate seed cells for bioengineering corneas is still a probl...