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Polyphosphate, the physiological metabolic fuel for corneal cells: a potential biomaterial for ocular surface repair

Published:2019 Issue:12 Volume:7 Page:5506-5515
ISSN:2047-4830
Container-title:Biomaterials Science
language:en
Short-container-title:Biomater. Sci.

Author:

Wang Xiaohong¹²³⁴^ORCID,Gericke Adrian⁵⁶⁷⁴,Ackermann Maximilian⁸²⁹⁴,Wang Shunfeng¹²³⁴,Neufurth Meik¹²³⁴,Schröder Heinz C.¹²³⁴^ORCID,Pfeiffer Norbert⁵⁶⁷⁴,Müller Werner E. G.¹²³⁴^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. ERC Advanced Investigator Grant Research Group at the Institute for Physiological Chemistry

2. University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University

3. 55128 Mainz

4. Germany

5. Department of Ophthalmology

6. University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz

7. 55131 Mainz

8. Institute of Functional and Clinical Anatomy

9. 55099 Mainz

Abstract

Polyphosphate, a natural inorganic polymer that acts as a reservoir for metabolic fuel (ATP), increases the proliferation and migration potency of epithelial cells, covering the avascular cornea.

Funder

European Research Council

European Commission

Human Frontier Science Program

Publisher

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

Subject

General Materials Science,Biomedical Engineering

Link

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2019/BM/C9BM01289C

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