More than meets the eye: The role of microglia in healthy and diseased retina

E Murenu, MJ Gerhardt, M Biel… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Microglia are the main resident immune cells of the nervous system and as such they are
involved in multiple roles ranging from tissue homeostasis to response to insults and circuit …

[HTML][HTML] The role of osteopontin in microglia biology: current concepts and future perspectives

DD Rosmus, C Lange, F Ludwig, B Ajami, P Wieghofer - Biomedicines, 2022 - mdpi.com
The innate immune landscape of the central nervous system (CNS), including the brain and
the retina, consists of different myeloid cell populations with distinct tasks to fulfill. Whereas …

Role of myeloid cells in ischemic retinopathies: recent advances and unanswered questions

RA Shahror, CA Morris, AA Mohammed, M Wild… - Journal of …, 2024 - Springer
Myeloid cells including microglia and macrophages play crucial roles in retinal homeostasis
by clearing cellular debris and regulating inflammation. These cells are activated in several …

Macrophage/microglia polarization for the treatment of diabetic retinopathy

Y Yao, J Li, Y Zhou, S Wang, Z Zhang… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Macrophages/microglia are immune system defense and homeostatic cells that develop
from bone marrow progenitor cells. According to the different phenotypes and immune …

Macrophages in close proximity to the vitreoretinal interface are potential biomarkers of inflammation during retinal vascular disease

A Rajesh, S Droho, JA Lavine - Journal of neuroinflammation, 2022 - Springer
Background Diabetic retinopathy and retinal vein occlusion are vision threatening retinal
vascular diseases. Current first-line therapy targets the vascular component, but many …

Imaging of vitreous cortex hyalocyte dynamics using non-confocal quadrant-detection adaptive optics scanning light ophthalmoscopy in human subjects

JV Migacz, O Otero-Marquez, R Zhou… - Biomedical Optics …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Vitreous cortex hyalocytes are resident macrophage cells that help maintain the
transparency of the media, provide immunosurveillance, and respond to tissue injury and …

Exploring the immune infiltration landscape and M2 macrophage-related biomarkers of proliferative diabetic retinopathy

Z Meng, Y Chen, W Wu, B Yan, Y Meng… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Backgrounds Diabetic retinopathy (DR), especially proliferative diabetic retinopathy (PDR),
is the major cause of irreversible blindness in the working-age population. Increasing …

[PDF][PDF] Single cell transcriptomic analysis of proliferative diabetic retinopathy fibrovascular membranes reveals AEBP1 as fibrogenesis modulator

K Corano Scheri, JA Lavine, T Tedeschi, BR Thomson… - JCI Insight, 2023 - insight.jci.org
The management of preretinal fibrovascular membranes, a devastating complication of
advanced diabetic retinopathy (DR), remains challenging. We characterized the molecular …

Neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration in diabetic retinopathy

L Bianco, A Arrigo, E Aragona, A Antropoli… - Frontiers in Aging …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is the most common complication of diabetes and has been
historically regarded as a microangiopathic disease. Now, the paradigm is shifting toward a …

Visualizing features with wide-field volumetric OCT angiography

TT Hormel, GB Liang, X Wei, Y Guo, M Gao, J Wang… - Optics express, 2024 - opg.optica.org
Optical coherence tomography (OCT) and its extension OCT angiography (OCTA) have
become essential clinical imaging modalities due to their ability to provide depth-resolved …