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Corneal Epithelial Cells cartoon

The ocular surface is composed of three epithelia - conjunctival, limbal and corneal.

• Limbal stem cells are located in the palisades of Vogt, the transitional zone between the cornea and the conjunctiva.
• Limbal stem cells are close to blood vessels.
• They generate transient amplifying cells that terminally differentiate after a discrete number of cell divisions to corneal epithelial cells and undergo both centripetal migration and vertical migration.

Links: Cornea Development

Reference

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