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Br J Ophthalmol 2003;87:249-250 doi:10.1136/bjo.87.2.249-a
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Corneal opacification following keratoplasty in the rat model

  1. Ilse Claerhout
  1. Department of Ophthalmology, Ghent University Hospital, De Pintelaan 185, 9000 Gent, Belgium; Ilse.claerhout@rug.ac.be

      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 …

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