Figure 2. Correlation between in vivo confocal microscopy and immunohistochemistry on peripheral vascularisation in the corneal anterior stroma in a model of Endotoxin Induced Uveitis. A: In vivo confocal microscopic images (400 μm x 400 μm) of a circular peripheral network of vessels in the corneal anterior stroma, deriving from a large circumferential vascular structure resembling the major arterial circle of iris (arrow), are shown of rats injected with LPS. Margination and diapedesis of inflammatory cells can be visualized from these vessels toward the anterior stroma (C). These peripheral corneal vessels can also be shown in ex vivo immunostaining with phalloidin in the limbus of flat-mount corneas from rats injected with LPS (B and D).