Funding for this research was provided by:
National Natural Science Foundation of China (81471606)
Natural Science Foundation of Hubei Province (2014CFB973)
Article History
Received: 28 September 2018
Accepted: 13 June 2019
First Online: 25 June 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: This study was approved by the ethical committee of Tongji Hospital. Human LNC were isolated and cultured as previously reported. Donor corneas were obtained from the Red Cross Eye Bank of Wuhan City, Tongji Hospital (Hubei, China) and managed in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.