Cold-Induced Injury to Porcine Corneal Endothelial Cells and Its Mediation by Chelatable Iron

Abstract

Cultured porcine corneal endothelial cells incur a strong iron-dependent injury elicited by hypothermia. This cold-induced injury might provide an explanation for the known corneal endothelial susceptibility to hypothermic preservation injury, which thus might be amenable to therapeutic interventions (ie, by iron chelators).