Declining availability of human eye tissues for research.

Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci

Department of Ophthalmology, University of Alabama School of Medicine, Callahan Eye Foundation Hospital, Birmingham, Alabama 35294-0009, USA.

Published: July 2006

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