Zahra Tajbakhsh, Blanka Golebiowski, Fiona Stapleton, Ramin Salouti, M Hosein Nowroozzadeh, Mohammad Zamani, Nancy Briggs, Isabelle Jalbert
The aim of the study was to compare the distribution of corneal and conjunctival epithelial dendritic cells (DCs) in vernal keratoconjunctivitis (VKC), allergic conjunctivitis (AC), and non-allergic controls to examine if the allergy type causes differences in immune cell activation. The prospective study included 60 participants: 20 with VKC, 20 with AC, and 20 non-allergic controls. In vivo confocal microscopy was performed on the right eye. The locations scanned included the corneal centre, inferior whorl, corneal periphery, corneal limbus, and bulbar conjunctiva...
September 29, 2023: Biomolecules