Prior contact lens wear reduces susceptibility of the superficially-injured cornea to bacterial adhesion
Yujia Yang, Orneika Flandrin, Sara J Abboud, Eric Jedel, David J Evans, Suzanne M J Fleiszig · 2026
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Description
Yujia Yang, David J Evans, and Suzanne M J Fleiszig led a mouse study with a surprise twist. Mice wore a contact lens on one eye for a few days. Lens wear stirs mild swelling on the eye's surface. Then both eyes got a light scratch and a dose of germs. The team asked if the worn eye would fare worse. It fared better.
Germs stuck to the lens-worn eyes about half as much. This held for a mild eyelid germ and a harsh eye germ alike. Immune cells had also moved into the worn eyes in force. The team reads the lens stir as a kind of drill. It primes the eye to fight off germs after small harm.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Yujia Yang, Orneika Flandrin, Sara J Abboud, Eric Jedel, David J Evans, Suzanne M J Fleiszig |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 33389 |
| LICENSE | CC_BY |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | PLOS |