The cornea is the clear, outermost layer of the eye. Its outer border, the limbus, contains a large volume of healthy stem ...

Corneal clarity depends on the regenerative capacity of corneal limbal epithelial stem cells, which provide specialized corneal epithelium and serve as a barrier between conjunctiva and cornea ...

Since these tissues are not corneal epithelium and do not possess innate limbal stem cells, it would be interesting to perform longitudinal studies to document the long-term restoration of corneal ...

The cornea is made up of corneal epithelial stem cells that exist at the boundary ... developed a method for culturing autologous corneal limbal epithelial cell transplantation (CALEC), which ...

The treatment, called a cultivated autologous limbal epithelial cell transplantation -- or CALEC -- can help restore surface corneal epithelial cells, which can be destroyed after chemical burns ...

It turns out the eye was still intact, but the cornea was burned ... U.S. "The name of it is cultivated autologous limbal epithelial stem cell transplantation," Dr. Ula Jurkunas said.

Conjunctivalization of the cornea in presumed limbal insufficiency can be shown by IVCM. Laser scanning IVCM also allows the examination of conjunctival structures. Thus, IVCM may help to ...

If the cornea is badly damaged, limbal stem cells can taken from the patient, grown in the lab and then transplanted back on to the patient’s damaged eye, or eyes, in order to restore sight.