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Oxidative Medicine and Cellular Longevity
Volume 2016, Article ID 5843809, 12 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/5843809
Research Article

The Favorable Effect of Mesenchymal Stem Cell Treatment on the Antioxidant Protective Mechanism in the Corneal Epithelium and Renewal of Corneal Optical Properties Changed after Alkali Burns

Cestmir Cejka,1 Vladimir Holan,2,3 Peter Trosan,2,3 Alena Zajicova,2 Eliska Javorkova,2,3 and Jitka Cejkova1

1Laboratory of Eye Histochemistry and Pharmacology, Institute of Experimental Medicine, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Videnska 1083, 14220 Prague 4, Czech Republic
2Department of Transplantation Immunology, Institute of Experimental Medicine, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Videnska 1083, 14220 Prague 4, Czech Republic
3Faculty of Natural Science, Charles University, Vinicna 7, 12843 Prague 2, Czech Republic

Received 16 October 2015; Accepted 16 November 2015

Academic Editor: Janusz Gebicki

Copyright © 2016 Cestmir Cejka et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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