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Immunological responses in mice to full-thickness corneal grafts engineered from porcine collagen

Overview of attention for article published in Clinical Materials, April 2007
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Title
Immunological responses in mice to full-thickness corneal grafts engineered from porcine collagen
Published in
Clinical Materials, April 2007
DOI 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2007.04.025
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Lei Liu, Lucia Kuffová, May Griffith, Zexu Dang, Elizabeth Muckersie, Yuwen Liu, Christopher R. McLaughlin, John V. Forrester

Abstract

Tissue-engineered (TE) corneas were fabricated from porcine collagen cross-linked with 1-ethyl-3-(3-dimethyl aminoproplyl)carbodiimide (EDC) and N-hydroxysuccinimide (NHS), and were transplanted into BALB/c mice orthotopically using a full-thickness penetrating keratoplasty (PKP) procedure. The biocompatibility was evaluated by assessing both local and systemic immune responses. Myeloid cells including granulocytes and macrophages were the main infiltrating cells in recipient cornea and in retro-TE corneal membrane which developed 7-10 days post surgery. Sodium citrate was found to be effective in reducing fibrin accumulation in anterior chamber post grafting at early time points, but it did not prevent formation of the retro-TE corneal membrane. No significant T cell activation was observed in the submandibular draining lymph nodes (SMDLN) by flow cytometry. Anti-porcine type I collagen IgG antibodies were detected in the serum of grafted mice from 2 weeks post grafting and the concentration of antibodies increased with time. Overall, porcine collagen-EDC/NHS TE corneas were tolerated well in murine recipients, causing mainly a self-limiting local innate immune response and a low-grade humoral response with little evidence of sustained T cell activation. Retro-TE corneal membrane formation was the main complication and barrier to clarity.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 32 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 7 22%
Student > Master 5 16%
Student > Doctoral Student 3 9%
Student > Postgraduate 3 9%
Student > Bachelor 2 6%
Other 6 19%
Unknown 6 19%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 12 38%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 3 9%
Engineering 3 9%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 2 6%
Immunology and Microbiology 1 3%
Other 3 9%
Unknown 8 25%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 6. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 09 October 2012.
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#5,452,627
of 25,394,764 outputs
Outputs from Clinical Materials
#2,307
of 10,758 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#16,561
of 86,874 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Clinical Materials
#23
of 64 outputs
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