The Potential for Eye Bank Limbal Rings to Generate Cultured Corneal Epithelial Allografts

Abstract

Confluent sheets of cultured corneal epithelial cells, suitable for grafting, can be produced from limbal tissue taken from eye bank organ-cultured corneas, although it takes longer, on average, to reach confluence (17-21 days) than an equivalent sample from a fresh eye (9-12 days).