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(Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science. 2000;41:1130-1141.)
© 2000 by The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Inc.

Lens Cell Populations Studied in Human Donor Capsular Bags with Implanted Intraocular Lenses

Julia M. Marcantonio1, Jean-Marie Rakic2, Gijs F. J. M. Vrensen3 and George Duncan1

1 From the School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom; 2 Ophthalmology, University Hospital (CHU), Liege, Belgium; and 3 The Netherlands Ophthalmic Research Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

PURPOSE. Posterior capsule opacification is an ongoing cellular redistribution process. The level of viable cell coverage was therefore determined in human donor capsular bags with implanted intraocular lenses, and cellular morphology and ultrastructure were investigated in relation to cell type and level of differentiation.

METHODS. Donor capsular bags, retrieved at intervals of 4 months to 13 years after surgery, were investigated by phase optics before fixation. Postfixation techniques included scanning electron microscopy and transmission electron microscopy of sections and immunofluorescent staining of cytoskeletal proteins in wholemounts.

RESULTS. All the capsular bags contained a large population of viable cells on the capsular surfaces. Cells on the anterior face of the anterior capsule and in the spaces around the intraocular lens had an elongated morphology and expressed {alpha}-smooth muscle actin. The cells formed light-scattering, multilayered aggregates and strands that were surrounded by layers of extracellular matrix. The regions between the intraocular lens and the equator of the bags were populated by monolayers of epithelial cells of normal morphology and ultrastructure, on both the anterior and posterior capsules. In some regions the apical surfaces of the two epithelial monolayers were in contact, and in some parts of the equatorial regions, differentiation of cells into well-organized fiberlike cells was evident.

CONCLUSIONS. Human capsular bags contain a large population of viable cells for many years after cataract surgery. Cells in the regions around the intraocular lens undergo transition to a mesenchymal type. Cells peripheral to these regions can form a stable closed microenvironment in which both normal epithelial morphology and differentiation to fiberlike cells are maintained.




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