Fig. 10.

One-month post-operation analysis of rabbit corneas subjected to implantation of corneal stromal SLATEs. Representative images of host corneas evaluated by A) naked eye, B) slit-lamp examination, C) optical coherence tomography (OCT), and D) hematoxylin and eosin histological analysis of three independent rabbit corneas implanted with A- and R-SLATEs (case), or subjected to sham-implantation (control). Arrowheads corresponded to implantation sites. Asterisk corresponded to a hyper-reflective area possibly associated to a corneal epithelial hypertrophy. Scale bar, 100 μm.