Table 1.
Donor eyes used for transcriptional analysis
| Donor | Age (years) | Sex | Race | D-E* (hours) | Cause of death |
| Microarray analysis | |||||
| 1 | 60 | M | W | 4:00 | Myocardial infarction |
| 2 | 80 | M | W | 3:35 | Respiratory failure |
| 3 | 45 | M | W | 4:45 | CVA† |
| 4 | 74 | F | W | 3:35 | Lung cancer |
| 5 | 95 | F | W | 3:05 | Leukaemia |
| Real time RT-PCR | |||||
| 6 | 83 | M | W | 3:10 | Myasthenia gravis |
| 7 | 82 | M | W | 3:00 | Melanoma |
| 8 | 84 | M | W | 5:00 | CHF‡ |
| 9 | 51 | F | W | 4:45 | Lung cancer |
| 10 | 57 | F | W | 5:45 | Ovarian cancer |
*D-E, death to enucleation time; † CVA, cerebral vascular attack; ‡ CHF, congestive heart failure.