Table 5.

Different culture and carrier biomaterials and methods used in cell-based therapies of LSCD, explored in animal models.

Methods	Materials	References
Transplantation	Carrier-free cell sheets	[36,41,42,43,44]
Transplantation	Amniotic membrane	[34,38,46,47,49,50,52,53]
Intravenous injection	–	[39]
Transplantation	Fibrin scaffold	[33,45,48]
Transplantation	Nanofiber scaffold	[40]
Injection under amniotic membrane	–	[37]
Topical application/Intra-limbal injection	–	[51]