Time: Dec. 13th, 2017

Source: School of Basic Medical Sciences

Publisher: JNU News Center

Prof. Li Zhijie and his research group in JNU's School of Basic Medical Sciences has found innate lymphoid cell type-2 (ILC2s) in corneas and proved it plays an important role in healing corneal wounds. Their research paper, Local Group 2 Innate Lymphoid Cells Promote Corneal Regeneration After Epithelial Abrasion, was published in American Journal of Pathology, the official journal of the American Society for Investigative Pathology. Dr. Liu Jun of the Integrated Chinese and Western Medicine Postdoctoral Research Center is the first author, and Prof. Li, of the Institute of Ophthalmology and the International Ocular Surface Disease Collaborative Innovation Research Center, is the project leader.

(Research mechanism process of ILC2s in cornea)

This research was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 39970250, 30772387 and 81070703 ) and the JNU Talents' Initial Fund. 

Link to paper: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0002944017301785