The invention provides application of
vasoactive intestinal
peptide VIP in preparation of a
medicine for preventing and / or treating
corneal epithelium lesion, and belongs to the technical field of biological
medicine preparation. The invention discloses application of
vasoactive intestinal
peptide VIP in preparation of a
medicine for preventing and / or treating
corneal epithelium lesion. Researches show that diabetes can cause expression down-regulation of VIP and a
receptor VIPR1 thereof in
corneal limbus tissues, so that
proliferation activity of
corneal limbus stem cells of diabetic mice is reduced, and healing of
corneal epithelium wounds is delayed. The exogenous supplement of VIP can effectively reverse the
pathological change, significantly enhance the multiplication capacity of corneal limbal stem cells and accelerate the repair of corneal
epithelium wounds; on the contrary, the VIPR1
receptor is knocked out, so that the
proliferation activity of the corneal limbal stem cells is reduced, and the
epithelium repair is delayed. Based on the results, the invention provides a new application of VIP in preparation of medicines for preventing and / or treating corneal
epithelium lesions, and a new effective means is provided for repair treatment of the diseases.