Fate of Cells in the Corneal Graft

The aim of the corneal transplant in man is to maintain corneal transparency. Even under the best conditions a proportion of the grafts that initially "take" suffer from the clinical problem of "graft sickness" with late clouding. These grafts are the homoplastic type, and evidence is accumulating which indicates that the homograft rejection phenomenon in the cornea is an immune response.^1,2Thus, the clouding in an otherwise...