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ArticleInvestigative ophthalmology & visual science2011

Corneal endothelial autocrine VIP enhances its integrity in stored human donor corneoscleral explant.

Shay-Whey M Koh, Dante Gloria, Joseph Molloy

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Article in Investigative ophthalmology & visual science, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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Shay-Whey M KohDepartment of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, 10 S. Pine Street, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA. skoh@umaryland.edu
Dante Gloria
Joseph Molloy
University of Maryland, Baltimore · US

Funding

NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR MODULATION OF CORNEAL ENDOTHELIUMR01EY011607 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE · PI KOH, SHAY-WHEY M · 1999 to 2009
$1.9M
NEI NIH HHS R01 EY011607
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purposeTo demonstrate corneal endothelial (CE) integrity enhanced during eye banking by a brief treatment of human donor corneoscleral explant (explant) with CE autocrine trophic factor vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP).

methodsPaired explants were used as control versus VIP (10 nM)-treated before storage in corneal storage medium (4°C). CE ciliary neurotrophic factor receptor (CNTFRα) and CNTF (0.83 nM) responsiveness in connexin 43 upregulation were monitored (Western blot analysis). CE damage in CNTF-modulated explants and corneal buttons from explants was quantified by analysis of panoramic and microscopic images of the alizarin red-stained corneal endothelium. CE cells scraped from the Descemet's membrane were counted. CE VIP receptor was demonstrated (Western blot analysis).

resultsCE cells in every VIP-treated, freshly dissected explant demonstrated higher CNTFRα levels than controls (100% vs. 142% ± 15%; P = 0.014; 7 pairs stored for 4 to 25 days). Nine days after VIP treatment of previously preserved explants, CNTF responsiveness was 174% ± 23% (P = 0.023; 4 pairs) of controls. Panoramic images of explants and corneal buttons revealed that VIP treatment reduced CE damage to 75% ± 6% (P = 0.023; 4 pairs) and 71% ± 11% (P = 0.016; 9 pairs) of controls, respectively, whereas CE damage to 39% (2 pairs) and 23% ± 4% (P < 0.001; 7 pairs), respectively, was revealed in microscopic images. Twenty-one days after VIP treatment of previously preserved explants, CE cell retention was 206% ± 38% (P = 0.008; 14 pairs) of the control. CE cells from human donor corneas expressed VIP receptor VPAC1 (not VPAC2).

conclusionsCE integrity during eye banking was enhanced by a brief treatment of the explant with the CE autocrine VIP.

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Autocrine CommunicationCell SurvivalCiliary Neurotrophic Factor Receptor alpha SubunitCorneal Endothelial Cell LossCorneal TransplantationEndothelium, CornealEye BanksHumansLimbus CorneaeReceptors, Vasoactive Intestinal PeptideRecombinant ProteinsScleraVasoactive Intestinal PeptideVasodilator AgentsCiliary Neurotrophic Factor Receptor alpha SubunitReceptors, Vasoactive Intestinal PeptideRecombinant ProteinsVasoactive Intestinal PeptideVasodilator Agents

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PMID21482640
PMCPMC3176069
OpenAlexW2040130818

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