Journal
CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL OPHTHALMOLOGY
Volume 49, Issue 7, Pages 729-740Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/ceo.13972
Keywords
cornea; imaging systems; immunology; inflammation; ocular surface
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- National Health and Medical Research Council [APP1126540]
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In recent years, there has been increasing interest in studying corneal dendritic cells, which play important roles not only in ocular diseases but also in systemic diseases. In addition to focusing on the quantity of dendritic cells, attention has shifted to understanding how the morphology of these cells reflects the inflammatory status of the cornea and the health of the peripheral nervous system.
The corneal epithelium contains a population of resident immune cells commonly referred to as dendritic cells (DCs), or Langerhans cells. A unique advantage of the transparent cornea being situated at the surface of the eye is that these cells can be readily visualised using in vivo confocal microscopy. Over the past decade, interest in the involvement of corneal DCs in a range of ocular and systemic diseases has surged. For most studies, the number of corneal DCs has been the main outcome of interest. However, more recently attention has shifted towards understanding how DC morphology may provide insights into the inflammatory status of the cornea, and in some cases, the health of the peripheral nervous system. In this review, we provide examples of recent methodologies that have been used to classify and measure corneal DC morphology and discuss how this relates to local and systemic inflammatory conditions in humans and rodents.
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