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Rocking Media Over Ex Vivo Corneas Improves This Model and Allows the Study of the Effect of Proinflammatory Cytokines on Wound Healing
Deshpande, P. Ortega, Í. Sefat, Farshid Sangwan, V.S. Green, N.H. Claeyssens, F. MacNeil, S.
Deshpande, P.
Ortega, Í.
Sefat, Farshid
Sangwan, V.S.
Green, N.H.
Claeyssens, F.
MacNeil, S.
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2015
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Purpose.: The aim of this work was to develop an in vitro cornea model to study the effect of proinflammatory cytokines on wound healing.
Methods.: Initial studies investigated how to maintain the ex vivo models for up to 4 weeks without loss of epithelium. To study the effect of cytokines, corneas were cultured with the interleukins IL-17A, IL-22, or a combination of IL-17A and IL-22, or lipopolysaccharide (LPS). The effect of IL-17A on wound healing was then examined.
Results.: With static culture conditions, organ cultures deteriorated within 2 weeks. With gentle rocking of media over the corneas and carbon dioxide perfusion, the ex vivo models survived for up to 4 weeks without loss of epithelium. The cytokine that caused the most damage to the cornea was IL-17A. Under static conditions, wound healing of the central corneal epithelium occurred within 9 days, but only a single-layered epithelium formed whether the cornea was exposed to IL-17A or not. With rocking of media gently over the corneas, a multilayered epithelium was achieved 9 days after wounding. In the presence of IL-17A, however, there was no wound healing evident. Characterization of the cells showed that wherever epithelium was present, both differentiated cells and highly proliferative cells were present.
Conclusions.: We propose that introducing rocking to extend the effective working life of this model and the introduction of IL-17A to this model to induce aspects of inflammation extend its usefulness to study the effects of agents that influence corneal regeneration under normal and inflamed conditions.
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Deshpande P, Ortega I, Sefat F, Sangwan V S, Green N, Claeyssens F and MacNeil S (2015) Rocking Media Over Ex Vivo Corneas Improves This Model and Allows the Study of the Effect of Proinflammatory Cytokines on Wound Healing. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science. 56(3): 1553-61.
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