Charles Duarte Almeida

ORCID: 0009-0008-6860-8529
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  • Corneal Surgery and Treatments
  • Corneal surgery and disorders
  • Cellular Mechanics and Interactions
  • Ocular Surface and Contact Lens

Universidade Federal do Maranhão
2022-2024

The cornea is an avascular, innervated, and transparent tissue composed of five layers: the epithelium, Bowman’s layer, stroma, Descemet’s membrane, endothelium. It located in outermost fraction eyeball responsible for refraction two-thirds light protection from external mechanical damage. Although several studies have been done on macroscopic scale, there a lack micro-nanoscopic especially analysis evaluating layer by layer. In this study, atomic force microscopy (AFM) was employed to...

10.3390/ijms23147833 article EN International Journal of Molecular Sciences 2022-07-15
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