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US 2011/0217460 A1Published application
Self-assembling, collagen-based material for corneal replacement
AssigneesUniversity of South Florida, Shriners Hospitals for Children
InventorsW. GARRETT MATTHEWS, August Heim, Thomas J. Koob
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Abstract
A material derived from sea cucumber collagen fibrils is suitable for use in corneal replacements or as an implantable contact lens. To produce material, the collagen fibrils are centrifuged into orthogonal stacks of lamellae comprised of aligned fibrils. The resulting structure is a transparent film of arbitrary thickness very similar in structure to mammalian corneal tissue.
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A method for producing a material suitable for ophthalmic purposes, comprising:
- obtaining collagen fibrils isolated from an organism of the phylum Echinodermata.
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