Sentences with phrase «human cornea»

Stem cells collected from human corneas restore transparency and don't trigger a rejection response when injected into eyes that are scarred and hazy, according to experiments conducted in mice by researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.

Stem cells collected from human corneas restore transparency and don't trigger a rejection response when injected into eyes that are scarred and hazy, according to experiments conducted by researchers at the...

Shukla and colleagues discovered that a small drug molecule called BX795, which is sold to labs for use in experiments, helped clear HSV - 1 infection in cultured human corneal cells, in donated human corneas, and in the corneas of mice infected with HSV - 1.

They had the same result in intact human corneas, and in mice whose eyes had been infected with HSV - 1.

May Griffith at Linköping University in Sweden, and colleagues, made the replacement corneas from collagen moulded to the shape and size of a natural human cornea.

Investigators identified gene expression regulators, microRNAs, in normal and diabetic human corneas.

When human corneas were kept in Optisol at 4 °C following wounding, however, the level of TGFβ did not increase significantly over 22 days indicating that a metabolic component to the generation of higher levels of TGFβ was evident.

Tissues were stained for BrdU incorporation into new DNA as previously described for the human corneas.

Methods: Forty - eight human corneas were used.

In order to develop functional artificial corneal tissue, a thorough understanding of the human cornea is needed.

Human corneas were obtained from the Alabama and Georgia Eye Banks.

In the human cornea, the endothelium is the most important layer for the maintenance of osmotic balance and the transparency of corneal tissue [1].