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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Cornea. 2016 Nov;35(Suppl 1):S65–S70. doi: 10.1097/ICO.0000000000000989

FIGURE 1. Bilateral alterations in nervous and immune systems in unilateral corneal disease.

FIGURE 1

(Left) affected eye, (Right) contralateral (unaffected) eye. IL-1β, IL-6, and IL-8 were significantly elevated above healthy controls in affected eyes, but not in contralateral eyes. CCL-2, IL-10 and IL-17A were elevated in contralateral eyes, but not in affected eyes. Significantly elevated TREM-1 levels were observed in both eyes.

TREM-1, triggering of receptors expressed on myeloid cells