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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Oct 11.
Published in final edited form as: Curr Mol Med. 2010 Dec;10(9):841–850. doi: 10.2174/156652410793937796

Fig. (2). Clinical and Basic Ophthalmology Literature Regarding to AMT by Year.

Fig. (2)

Over the past decade, there has been a surge of interest in amniotic membrane transplantation (AMT) for ocular surface reconstruction. PubMed search of papers published in Ophthalmology per year are plotted from the PI’s pioneering paper in 1995 [53]). These studies collectively showed that AMT is effective in facilitating epithelial wound healing and reducing stromal inflammation, scarring and unwanted new blood vessel formation.