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Evaluating Therapeutic and Chemical Toxicity Using Organ-Cultured Porcine Corneas and Epithelial Wound Healing

Due to its anatomical and physiological similarities to the human eye, the porcine eye serves as a robust model for biomedical research and ocular ...

Wayne State University School of Medicine

Corneal clarity is frequently reduced during vitrectomy and scleral buckling surgery secondary to epithelial edema, requiring epithelial debridement to improve visibility. The presence of toxic preservatives in the corneal lubricant solutions is hypothesized to be a contributing factor to epithelial edema during vitreo-retinal surgery.

Reduced need for corneal epithelial debridement during vitreo-retinal surgery using two different viscous surface lubricants.

Ketorolac 0.45% is a new formulation of topical ketorolac in which preservative (benzalkonium chloride, BAK) was removed and carboxymethylcellulose (CMC) was added to improve tolerability and reduce dosing frequency. This study compared the effects of ketorolac 0.45% on corneal wound healing to prior ketorolac formulations (0.4% and 0.5%), bromfenac 0.09%, and nepafenac 0.1%.

Ex vivo corneal epithelial wound healing following exposure to ophthalmic nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs.

The cornea is the most densely innervated mammalian tissue. The sensory nerves are responsible for sensations of dryness, temperature, touch, and pain, and play important roles in the blink reflex, wound healing, and tear production. Many ocular and systemic diseases can adversely affect corneal sensory nerve and consequently impair their function. One of such systemic diseases is diabetes mellitus (DM) which causes sensory degeneration, neurotrophic keratopathy (DNK), and delayed wound healing. In this review, we summarize recent discoveries revealing mechanisms underlying the pathogenesis of DNK and the impairment of sensory nerve regeneration in post wound diabetic corneas in using animal model of human diabetes. Because it is generally believed that common mechanisms are operative in the pathogenesis of diabetic peripheral neuropathy in different tissues, the findings in the corneas have implications in in other tissues such as the skin, which often leads to foot ulceration and amputation in diabetic patients.

Sensory nerve regeneration after epithelium wounding in normal and diabetic cornea.

Determining risk factors for posterior capsule opacification will allow for further interventions to reduce the risk of development and thus additional procedures.

Mark McDermott

Departments of Ophthalmology and Anatomy and Cell Biology,
Kresge Eye Institute,
Departments of Ophthalmology and Anatomy and Cell Biology, Kresge Eye Institute

Wayne State University School of Medicine

Evaluating Therapeutic and Chemical Toxicity Using Organ-Cultured Porcine Corneas and Epithelial Wound Healing

Mark McDermott

Departments of Ophthalmology and Anatomy and Cell Biology,Kresge Eye Institute,Departments of Ophthalmology and Anatomy and Cell Biology, Kresge Eye Institute

Wayne State University School of Medicine

Evaluating Therapeutic and Chemical Toxicity Using Organ-Cultured Porcine Corneas and Epithelial Wound Healing

Departments of Ophthalmology and Anatomy and Cell Biology,
Kresge Eye Institute,
Departments of Ophthalmology and Anatomy and Cell Biology, Kresge Eye Institute