Immune Cells Localize to Sites of Corneal Erosions in C57BL/6 Mice.
Biomolecules
; 13(7)2023 06 29.
Article
in En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-37509096
ABSTRACT
Recurrent epithelial erosions develop in the cornea due to prior injury or genetic predisposition. Studies of recurrent erosions in animal models allow us to gain insight into how erosions form and are resolved. While slowing corneal epithelial cell migration and reducing their proliferation following treatment with mitomycin C reduce erosion formation in mice after sterile debridement injury, additional factors have been identified related to cytokine expression and immune cell activation. The relationship between recruitment of immune cells to the region of the cornea where erosions form and their potential roles in erosion formation and/or erosion repair remains unexplored in the C57BL/6 mouse recurrent erosion model. Here, high resolution imaging of mouse corneas was performed at D1, D7, and D28 after dulled-blade debridement injury in C57BL/6 mice. Around 50% of these mice have frank corneal erosions at D28 after wounding. A detailed assessment of corneas revealed the involvement of M2 macrophages in both frank and developing erosions at early stages of their formation.
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01-internacional
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MEDLINE
Main subject:
Epithelium, Corneal
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Corneal Injuries
Type of study:
Prognostic_studies
Limits:
Animals
Language:
En
Journal:
Biomolecules
Year:
2023
Document type:
Article
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