Study type: In vivo/preclinical · Status: Verified against declared source

Protection effect of thymosin β4 on ethanol injury in corneal stromal keratocyte.

BMC ophthalmology · 2022

Study scale: Not reported

Abstract only: Open source record

Product or molecular entity relationships

Thymosin Beta-4 (TB500): Exact entity relationship. Legacy citation custody associates this source with the catalog record; no product-relevance conclusion is implied.

Plain-language verified summary

Question

To investigate the protective effects of thymosin β4 (Tβ4) on ethanol injured human corneal keratocytes (HCKs).

Methods

HCKs and BALB/c mice were chosen as the study subject.

Scale or participants

Not reported in the reviewed source.

Key findings

To investigate the protective effects of thymosin β4 (Tβ4) on ethanol injured human corneal keratocytes (HCKs).

Limitations and uncertainty

Our study established an ethanol-injured corneal stroma model in both vitro and vivo.

Verified against declared source. Verification is limited to the declared source and review scope. It does not mean independent replication or establish efficacy, safety, or suitability.