DOI: 10.36871/vet.zoo.bio.202012002
UDC 617.1
Authors
N. A. Slesarenko
Doctor of Biological Sciences, Professor, Head of the Department of Anatomy
and Histology of Animals after Professor A. F. Klimov,
Moscow State Academy of Veterinary Medicine
and Biotechnology – MVA by K. I. Skryabin,
Moscow, Russian Federation
A. G. Shilkin
Candidate of Medical Sciences, Director of Veterinary Ophthalmology Center,
Moscow, Russian Federation
U. E. Lukashina
Graduate student of the Department of Anatomy and Histology of Animals
after Professor A. F. Klimov, Moscow State Academy of Veterinary
Medicine and Biotechnology – MVA by K. I. Skryabin,
Moscow, Russian Federation
Abstract
The article reflects the influence of corneal collagen crosslinking on changes in the morphofunctional
signs of the corneal stroma. Data on changes in the anterior layers of the stroma, which
are expressed by a compact packing of fibers without signs of even minimal edema, as well as a
demarcation line separating the area of impact from the indifferent zone, are scientifically substantiated.
Clinical observation of cats and dogs after keratoplasty using a crosslinking modified cornea
showed the most favorable course of the postoperative period which was expressed in an increase in
the resistance of the collagen matrix of the donor tissue to collagenases which is especially important
when using large and giant transplants.
Keywords
crosslinking, stratification, demarcation line, keratopathy, keratoplasty.
