Lions Eye Institute for Transplant and Research
The science of sight. The gift of vision.
LEITR specializes in providing ocular tissues with a rapid death -to-preservation time, most globes in under 8 hours. We typically supply tissues with the following criteria -
High quality, low death-to-preservation
Age, race and gender-specific criteria
Control and pathologically graded diseased tissue including
Glaucoma, Age-Related Macular Degeneration
We also offer dissection of fresh eye tissues, samples for fixation, flash-freezing, or in RNAlater
and histological processingdissection of fresh tissues (macula RPE/retina, peripheral RPE/retina, optic nerve ciliary body, TM, cornea)
Culturing of primary ocular cells: trabecular meshwork, retinal pigment epithelial cells, corneal endothelial cells, laminal cribrosal cells
Custom on-site experiments using human ocular tissues under greatly reduced post-mortem time intervals.
an anterior chamber organ perfusion system that allows long-term (7-10 day) examination of the human aqueous outflow system.
Long-term cultures of retinal explants allowing for experiments on ex vivo retinal explant
Brands: Procurement of pre-clinical human donor tissues for research, Neural Retina Explant Model, Perfusion Organ culture cornea model,