March 2012
Volume 53, Issue 14
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ARVO Annual Meeting Abstract  |   March 2012
Analysis Of Neutrophil Dynamics In The Cornea After Alkali Injury Using Lysm-gfp Mice
Author Affiliations & Notes
  • Ayaka Koga
    Biomedical Engineering,Faculty of Life and Medical Sciences,
    Doshisha University, Kyotanabe, Japan
    Ophthalmology, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
  • Mayumi Ueta
    Research Center for Inflammation and Regenerative Medicine, Faculty of Life and Medical Sciences,
    Doshisha University, Kyotanabe, Japan
    Ophthalmology, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
  • Masau Ishii
    Laboratory of Biological Imaging, WPI-Immunology Frontier Research Center, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan
  • Noriko Koizumi
    Biomedical Engineering,Faculty of Life and Medical Sciences,
    Doshisha University, Kyotanabe, Japan
    Ophthalmology, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
  • Shigeru Kinoshita
    Ophthalmology, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
  • Footnotes
    Commercial Relationships  Ayaka Koga, None; Mayumi Ueta, None; Masau Ishii, None; Noriko Koizumi, None; Shigeru Kinoshita, None
  • Footnotes
    Support  the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science March 2012, Vol.53, 3528. doi:
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      Ayaka Koga, Mayumi Ueta, Masau Ishii, Noriko Koizumi, Shigeru Kinoshita; Analysis Of Neutrophil Dynamics In The Cornea After Alkali Injury Using Lysm-gfp Mice. Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 2012;53(14):3528.

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Abstract

Purpose: : It has been reported that neutrophils greatly contribute to corneal inflammation resulting from an alkali injury. In lysin-motif green fluorescent protein (LysM-GFP) mice, myelomonocytic cells are labeled with GFP in vivo, and the resulting endogenous neutrophils are brightly labeled and monocytes and macrophages are also labeled, but to a lesser extent. The purpose of this present study was to analyze neutrophil dynamics in alkali-injury-associated corneal inflammation using LysM-GFP mice.

Methods: : A 2-mm-diameter corneal alkali injury was created on the corneas of LysM-GFP mice with 1N-NaOH, an extremely corrosive sodium hydroxide solution. The corneal tissues were collected at 0, 3, 6, 12, 24, 48, 72, and 120 hours after alkali injury, and then analyzed by confocal microscopy.

Results: : In the normal corneas (0 hours) of the LysM-GFP mice, LysM strongly-positive cells (neutrophils) were found to be in the corneal stroma of only the limbus. At 3 hours after alkali injury, there was no obvious change. At 6 hours after injury, the neutrophils moved toward the boundary of the alkali injury site. At 12 hours after injury, the neutrophils were gathered to the boundary, however, they were yet to be observed at the site of injury. At 24 hours after injury, neutrophils infiltrated to the injury site, and at 48 hours after injury, the neutrophils had reached the central part of the cornea. At 72 hours after injury, the neutrophils remained and infiltrated densely into the injury site, although the corneal epithelial defect had disappeared by that time. At 120 hours after injury, although the corneal opacities had nearly disappeared, the neutrophils were present at the injury site and the limbus.

Conclusions: : The results of this study show that neutrophils are present in the stroma of only the limbus under normal conditions, however, those cells move to the entire stroma of the cornea after alkali injury.

Keywords: cornea: stroma and keratocytes • inflammation • wound healing 
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