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Title: | Regulatory compliant tissue-engineered human corneal endothelial grafts restore corneal function of rabbits with bullous keratopathy | Authors: | Peh, Gary S. L. Ang, Heng-Pei Lwin, Chan N. Adnan, Khadijah George, Benjamin L. Seah, Xin-Yi Lin, Shu-Jun Bhogal, Maninder Liu, Yu-Chi Tan, Donald T. Mehta, Jodhbir Singh |
Keywords: | DRNTU::Engineering::Materials Tissue-engineered Endothelial Keratoplasty Corneal Endothelial |
Issue Date: | 2017 | Source: | Peh, G. S. L., Ang, H.-P., Lwin, C. N., Adnan, K., George, B. L., Seah, X.-Y., . . . Mehta, J. S. (2017). Regulatory Compliant Tissue-Engineered Human Corneal Endothelial Grafts Restore Corneal Function of Rabbits with Bullous Keratopathy. Scientific Reports, 7, 14149-. doi:10.1038/s41598-017-14723-z | Series/Report no.: | Scientific Reports | Abstract: | Corneal transplantation is the only treatment available to restore vision for individuals with blindness due to corneal endothelial dysfunction. However, severe shortage of available donor corneas remains a global challenge. Functional regulatory compliant tissue-engineered corneal endothelial graft substitute can alleviate this reliance on cadaveric corneal graft material. Here, isolated primary human corneal endothelial cells (CEnCs) propagated using a dual media approach refined towards regulatory compliance showed expression of markers indicative of the human corneal endothelium, and can be tissue-engineered onto thin corneal stromal carriers. Both cellular function and clinical adaptability was demonstrated in a pre-clinical rabbit model of bullous keratopathy using a tissue-engineered endothelial keratoplasty (TE-EK) approach, adapted from routine endothelial keratoplasty procedure for corneal transplantation in human patients. Cornea thickness of rabbits receiving TE-EK graft gradually reduced over the first two weeks, and completely recovered to a thickness of approximately 400 µm by the third week of transplantation, whereas corneas of control rabbits remained significantly thicker over 1,000 µm (p < 0.05) throughout the course of the study. This study showed convincing evidence of the adaptability of the propagated CEnCs and their functionality via a TE-EK approach, which holds great promises in translating the use of cultured CEnCs into the clinic. | URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/88159 http://hdl.handle.net/10220/45658 |
ISSN: | 2045-2322 | DOI: | 10.1038/s41598-017-14723-z | Schools: | School of Materials Science & Engineering | Rights: | © 2017 The Author(s). This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. Te images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. | Fulltext Permission: | open | Fulltext Availability: | With Fulltext |
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