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Microdissection of Zebrafish Embryonic Eye Tissues
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Cited by 15 •
2010
This article describes an approach to microdissect zebrafish retinas with and without retinal pigment epithelium attached, from one to three days postfertilization embryos.
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Anterior Eye Segment Culturing: A Method to Culture Cornea Bearing Anterior Segment of Porcine Eye
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2025
In this video, we demonstrate the culturing method of a cornea-bearing anterior eye segment from a porcine eye. This culture system serves as an experimental model to study eye injuries.
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A Chronic Autoimmune Dry Eye Rat Model with Increase in Effector Memory T Cells in Eyeball Tissue
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Cited by 10 •
2017
This report describes a method to induce chronic experimental autoimmune dry eye in Lewis rats through immunization with an emulsion of rat lacrimal gland extract, ovalbumin, and complete Freund's adjuvant, followed by the injection of lacrimal gland extract and ovalbumin into the forniceal subconjunctiva and lacrimal glands six weeks later.
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Histotypic Tissue Culture
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2023
Although two-dimensional tissue culture has been common for some time, cells behave more realistically in a three-dimensional culture, and more closely mimics native tissue. This video introduces histotypic tissue culture, where the growth and propagation of one cell line is done in an engineered three-dimensional matrix to reach high cell density. Here, we show the harvesting of cells from donor tissue, followed by cell culture on an engineered construct.
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Whole Organ Tissue Culture
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2023
Whole organs can be cultured ex vivo using specialized bioreactors with the goal of repairing or replacing entire organs. This method uses a donor organ that is stripped of all cells, leaving behind the three-dimensional structure, which is then repopulated with new cells. This video demonstrates the whole organ culture of lungs and shows how a dynamic culture that mimics the mechanical stimulation in the body is needed to induce native tissue properties.
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Cell behavior in Eye Tissue Culture depends partly on how ocular cells interact with the extracellular matrix, the surrounding structural network that provides physical and biochemical cues. These interactions work together with cell type and biochemical signals to influence how the culture maintains or expresses aspects of ocular structure and function. Selecting suitable culture conditions is therefore important for producing relevant experimental models.
Sterility, nutrient-rich media, culture surfaces, temperature, and gas conditions are central variables in maintaining ocular cells or tissue. Their effects are not identical across cell types, because each type responds to the surrounding biochemical and extracellular-matrix environment. Controlling these factors helps researchers obtain more consistent cultures for studying eye function, disease-related behavior, and responses to engineered materials or treatments.
Three-dimensional cultures and organoid-like models can reproduce aspects of the ocular microenvironment that may be difficult to represent in simpler culture arrangements. By providing a more tissue-like organization, they support investigation of eye structure, function, disease, and regeneration. In bioengineering, these models are particularly useful when researchers need to examine how cells and engineered materials behave in a more complex setting.
A basic workflow begins with placing the selected ocular cells or tissue in a sterile, nutrient-rich environment and providing a suitable culture surface. Researchers then maintain the temperature and gas conditions appropriate for the culture while considering the cell type, extracellular-matrix interactions, and biochemical signals involved. These controlled conditions create a platform for evaluating cellular behavior and experimental responses.
Bioengineers can use ocular cultures to examine how cells or tissue respond to biomaterials intended for eye-related applications. The same models support development and evaluation of tissue-engineered grafts by providing a controlled setting in which material and cellular behavior can be studied. This information can guide therapeutic design before researchers proceed to animal or clinical studies.
Eye Tissue Culture can provide an intermediate research platform for studying eye structure, function, disease, and drug responses under controlled conditions. More advanced three-dimensional or organoid-like systems also support regeneration research, personalized medicine, and therapeutic design. Because cultures can be used to evaluate biomaterials and treatment responses before animal or clinical studies, they help inform later experimental decisions.