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Synthetic nanoparticle eyedrops help corneas heal after chemical or inflammatory damage
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Synthetic nanoparticle eyedrops help corneas heal after chemical or inflammatory damage

9.5.2025: Northwestern Medicine investigators have developed first-of-its-kind eyedrops that use synthetic nanoparticles to help the eye regenerate cells that have been damaged by mustard keratopathy, or exposure to mustard gas, and other inflammatory eye diseases. Limbal epithelial stem cells are responsible for maintaining and regenerating the cornea's epithelium, the outermost layer of the cornea. The loss or dysfunction of these cells can lead to limbal stem cell deficiency (LSCD), which can in turn cause persistent breakdown of the corneal...

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