Although not always successful, buccal mucous membrane allografting combined with corneal lamellar patch grafts is a useful surgical strategy in situations where conjunctival scarring or ...

The pleura (plural: pleurae) is a two-layered membrane that covers the lung. Between the layers is a small amount of lubricating fluid, known as pleural fluid, which helps cushion the lung and reduce ...

This membrane is referred to by its medical term as the conjunctiva. When the eyes are bloated and irritated, the minuscule vessels of blood that are found in the conjunctiva become more noticeable.

Biologists had long believed that bringing order and organization to the chaos of molecules inside a cell depended on membrane-bound compartments called organelles, such as the mitochondria.

underwent an erosion repair procedure before the buccal mucous membrane transplant procedure (Table 2). Three initial repairs involved a corneal patch graft with superficial conjunctival coverage ...

Ganjiang Innovation Academy, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ganzhou 341000, China CAS Key Laboratory of Green Process and Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Multiphase Complex Systems, Beijing Key ...

National Engineering Research Center for Biomaterials, Sichuan University, 29 Wangjiang Road, Chengdu, Sichuan 610064, P. R. China College of Biomedical Engineering ...