It is time for a moonshot to find “Cures” for diabetic retinal disease

SR Levine, P Sapieha, S Dutta, JK Sun… - Progress in Retinal and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Diabetic retinal disease (DRD), the most common complication of diabetes and a leading
cause of blindness in working age individuals, is now understood to be a form of sensory …

Visual dysfunction in diabetes

ED Eggers - Annual Review of Vision Science, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Although diabetic retinopathy (DR) is clinically diagnosed as a vascular disease, many
studies find retinal neuronal and visual dysfunction before the onset of vascular DR. This …

The effects of early diabetes on inner retinal neurons

ED Eggers, TA Carreon - Visual neuroscience, 2020 - cambridge.org
Diabetic retinopathy is now well understood as a neurovascular disease. Significant deficits
early in diabetes are found in the inner retina that consists of bipolar cells that receive inputs …

Preventable risk factors for type 2 diabetes can be detected using noninvasive spontaneous electroretinogram signals

R Noguez Imm, J Muñoz-Benitez, D Medina… - Plos one, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Given the ever-increasing prevalence of type 2 diabetes and obesity, the pressure on global
healthcare is expected to be colossal, especially in terms of blindness. Electroretinogram …

[HTML][HTML] High-throughput sequencing data reveal an antiangiogenic role of HNF4A-Mediated CACNA1A/VEGFA axis in proliferative diabetic retinopathy

Y Yin, S Wu, L Niu, S Huang - Investigative Ophthalmology & …, 2023 - tvst.arvojournals.org
Purpose: Proliferative diabetic retinopathy (PDR) is characterized by retinal new vessel
formation, pointing to the importance of the antiangiogenic treatment in PDR. Hepatocyte …

Pig Models in Retinal Research and Retinal Disease

MA McCall - Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in …, 2024 - perspectivesinmedicine.cshlp.org
The pig has been used as a large animal model in biomedical research for many years and
its use continues to increase because induced mutations phenocopy several inherited …

Early diabetes impairs ON sustained ganglion cell light responses and adaptation without cell death or dopamine insensitivity

MD Flood, AJ Wellington, LA Cruz, ED Eggers - Experimental eye research, 2020 - Elsevier
Retinal signaling under dark-adapted conditions is perturbed during early diabetes.
Additionally, dopamine, the main neuromodulator of retinal light adaptation, is diminished in …

Cell-subtype-specific remodeling of intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells in streptozotocin-induced diabetic mice

WY Chen, X Han, LJ Cui, CX Yu, WL Sheng, J Yu… - Diabetes, 2021 - Am Diabetes Assoc
Recent evidence suggests that melanopsin-expressing intrinsically photosensitive retinal
ganglion cells (ipRGCs), a neuronal class regulating non-image forming (NIF) vision and …

Slc7a14 Is Indispensable in Zebrafish Retinas

YY Zhuang, L **ang, XR Wen, RJ Shen… - Frontiers in Cell and …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Previous study has identified SLC7A14 as a new causative gene of retinitis pigmentosa
(RP). However, the role of SLC7A14 has not been fully characterized. The goal of this study …

The Interplay between Neurotransmitters and Calcium Dynamics in Retinal Synapses during Development, Health, and Disease

JM Boff, AP Shrestha, S Madireddy… - International Journal of …, 2024 - mdpi.com
The intricate functionality of the vertebrate retina relies on the interplay between
neurotransmitter activity and calcium (Ca2+) dynamics, offering important insights into …