Table 2
Donor age, postmortem time, and mean concentration of donor derived endotoxin detected within the media bathing 17 (I–XVII) fellow pairs (right eye and left eye) of cultured donor corneas during the initial 10 day phase of incubation
| Corneal pair no | Donor age (years) | Postmortem time (hours) | Endotoxin (units/ml) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Initial 1–10 day phase of organ culture | |||||||
| RE | LE | ||||||
| I | 24 | 21 | 0.685 (+) | 0.715 (+) | |||
| II | 33 | 21 | 0.89 (+) | 0.982 (+) | |||
| III | 41 | 16 | 0.429 (−) | 0.595 (−) | |||
| IV | 30 | 18 | 0.720 (+) | 0.685 (+) | |||
| V | 23 | 2 | 0.637 (+) | 0.732 (+) | |||
| VI | 16 | 17 | >1.0 (+) | >1.0 (+) | |||
| VII | 48 | 1 | 0.697 (+) | 0.543 (−) | |||
| VIII | 45 | 21 | 0.435 (−) | 0.482 (−) | |||
| IX | 56 | 2 | 0.453 (−) | 0.548 (−) | |||
| X | 53 | 17 | 0.494 (−) | 0.518 (−) | |||
| XI | 58 | 19 | >1.0 (+) | >1.0 (+) | |||
| XII | 67 | 5 | >1.0 (+) | 0.298 (−) | |||
| XIII | 41 | 44 | 0.476 (−) | 0.596 (−) | |||
| XIV | 48 | 24 | 0.857 (+) | 0.655 (+) | |||
| XV | 72 | 18 | 0.554 (−) | 0.685 (+) | |||
| XVI | 48 | 24 | 0.959 (+) | 0.720 (+) | |||
| XVII | 40 | 26 | 0.595 (−) | 0.631 (+) | |||
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Media were considered to register negative for endotoxin (−) if the level fell below 0.600 units/ml and to be endotoxin positive (+) if it exceeded this value.
