Hyaluronate Acid-Dependent Protection and Enhanced Corneal Wound Healing against Oxidative Damage in Corneal Epithelial Cells

Figure 3

Hyaluronate accelerated corneal epithelial wound healing in the heptanol-burned model. SD rat corneal epithelial cells were removed by burning with heptanol. The healing rates (a) and fluorescein-stained corneal images (b) revealed the healing processes of the corneal lesions in the rats at 6 h, 12 h, 18 h, 24 h, 36 h, 48 h, 3 d, 4 d, and 7 d after injury in the control and 0.3 HA groups. Magnification: ×16, ; ; . The data are the mean ± SEM and represent individual experiments, each including 5 animals/group/time.

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