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ReviewSeminars in immunopathology2008

Angiogenesis in eye disease: immunity gained or immunity lost?

Thomas A Ferguson, Rajendra S Apte

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Review in Seminars in immunopathology, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
28citing papers in PubMed
4.7field-weighted citation impact, top 6% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

28 citing papers in PubMed, 46 citations in OpenAlex.

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  9. Retinal Vasculature in Development and Diseases.Annual review of vision science · 2018
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  13. Thrombospondin-1-Based Antiangiogenic Therapy.Journal of ocular pharmacology and therapeutics : the official journal of the Association for Ocular Pharmacology and Therapeutics · 2015
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  15. The retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) induces FasL and reduces iNOS and Cox2 in primary monocytes.Graefe's archive for clinical and experimental ophthalmology = Albrecht von Graefes Archiv fur klinische und experimentelle Ophthalmologie · 2014
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  17. Islet inflammation in plain sight.Diabetes, obesity & metabolism · 2013
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  20. Peptidoglycan and muramyl dipeptide from Staphylococcus aureus induce the expression of VEGF-A in human limbal fibroblasts with the participation of TLR2-NFκB and NOD2-EGFR.Graefe's archive for clinical and experimental ophthalmology = Albrecht von Graefes Archiv fur klinische und experimentelle Ophthalmologie · 2013
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Thomas A FergusonDepartment of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Washington University School of Medicine, 660 S. Euclid, P.O. Box 8096, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA. ferguson@vision.wustl.edu
Rajendra S Apte
Washington University in St. Louis · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The anti-inflammatory nature of the intraocular environment is critical to the immune privilege of the eye. An important part of immune privilege is the induction of apoptosis by two death-inducing ligands (FasL and TRAIL) that can limit the spread of inflammation and control tumor growth. While initial studies focused on control of inflammation and the impact of these molecules on the systemic immune response, more recent studies have extended this concept to pathogenic neovascularization. This process is an important component of several blinding eye disorders including age-related macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, retinopathy of prematurity, and corneal disease. These studies showed that the mediators of immune privilege also regulate the extent of angiogenesis. In this article, we will develop the idea that constitutive expression of FasL in the eye, as well as inducible FasL on cells of the immune system, modulates neovascularization in ocular disease. Further, we will present the idea that macrophage participation in this process and their function during disease depends on the microenvironment and the cytokine milieu. These concepts challenge the idea that neovascular eye disease is simply an inflammatory process and support the idea that these diseases may result from the loss or dysfunction of important components of the cellular immune system.

Indexed as

AnimalsEye DiseasesFas Ligand ProteinHumansInflammationNeovascularization, PathologicTNF-Related Apoptosis-Inducing LigandFas Ligand ProteinTNF-Related Apoptosis-Inducing Ligand

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PMID18297288
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