Extracellular Vesicles in the Cornea: Insights from Other Tissues

Figure 6

Proposed functional roles of EVs in the cornea. The presence of EVs (red arrowheads) dispersed in the ECM of a self-assembled corneal fibroblast construct. A basement membrane (black arrow) forms between corneal epithelial cells and the stromal matrix. Images were modified and reproduced from McKay et al. (2019 and 2020) [25, 43] based on a Creative Commons BY license (CC BY 4.0), doi:10.3390/cells9051080 and doi:10.3390/bioengineering6040110.