• corneal opacification
• keratoplasty
• rat model

I read with great interest the excellent perspective by Plsková et al,¹ in which they raise the issue of transient corneal opacification following corneal transplantation in the mouse model and argue that it might be due to a sufficient number of endothelial cells regaining function.

What the authors describe for the mouse model also occurs in the rat model. In fact, most researchers on …