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American Journal of Pathology, Vol 149, 1287-1302, Copyright © 1996 by American Society for Investigative Pathology

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Role of matrix metalloproteinases in failure to re-epithelialize after corneal injury

ME Fini, WC Parks, WB Rinehart, MT Girard, M Matsubara, JR Cook, JA West-Mays, PM Sadow, RE Burgeson, JJ Jeffrey, MB Raizman, RR Krueger and JD Zieske
Department of Ophthalmology, New England Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts 02111, USA.

Delayed re-epithelialization of the cornea after injury usually precedes stromal ulceration. Previous findings using a rat thermal injury model suggested that re-epithelialization is impeded by products of resident corneal cells, which destroy adhesive structures at the basement membrane zone. In this study, we provide additional evidence for this concept. Failure to re-epithelialize was found to correlate with an increase in the amounts of gelatinolytic matrix metalloproteinases present in the rat cornea. One of these gelatinases, gelatinase B, is synthesized by the resident corneal cells, and inhibitions of its synthesis correlated with inhibition of basement membrane dissolution. The matrix metalloproteinases collagenase and stromelysin are also synthesized by resident corneal cells in thermally injured corneas of rabbits, but the timing of bulk enzyme synthesis correlated more closely with deposition of repair tissue in the stroma than with failure to re-epithelialize. Nevertheless, in human corneas with repair defects, gelatinase B and collagenase are synthesized by cells in the basal layer of the epithelium directly adjacent to the basement membrane, suggesting that both could participate in dissolution of this structure. Importantly, treatment of thermally injured corneas with a synthetic inhibitor of matrix metalloproteinases significantly improved basement membrane integrity. These data support the concept that over-expression of matrix metalloproteinases by resident corneal cells impedes re-epithelialization after some types of corneal injury.


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