Ayesha Gulzar, Erdost Yıldız, Hümeyra N Kaleli, Muhammad A Nazeer, Noushin Zibandeh, Anjum N Malik, Ayşe Y Taş, Ismail Lazoğlu, Afsun Şahin, Seda Kizilel
Corneal collagen crosslinking (CXL) is a commonly used minimally invasive surgical technique to prevent the progression of corneal ectasias, such as keratoconus. Unfortunately, riboflavin/UV-A light-based CXL procedures have not been successfully applied to all patients, and result in frequent complications, such as corneal haze and endothelial damage. We propose a new method for corneal crosslinking by using a Ruthenium (Ru) based water-soluble photoinitiator and visible light (430 nm). Tris(bipyridine)ruthenium(II) ([Ru(bpy)3 ]2+ ) and sodium persulfate (SPS) mixture covalently crosslinks free tyrosine, histidine, and lysine groups under visible light (400-450 nm), which prevents UV-A light-induced cytotoxicity in an efficient and time saving collagen crosslinking procedure...
May 25, 2022: Acta Biomaterialia