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ReviewProgress in retinal and eye research2009

Aging, age-related macular degeneration, and the response-to-retention of apolipoprotein B-containing lipoproteins.

Christine A Curcio, Mark Johnson, Jiahn-Dar Huang, Martin Rudolf

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Review in Progress in retinal and eye research, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 174 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
174citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
16.4field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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

174 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 269 citations in OpenAlex.

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  8. An Integrated Multi-omics Single Cell Atlas of the Human RPE and Choroid.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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  9. Impaired Rod-Mediated Vision is the Functional Hallmark of Ageing and Early and Intermediate Age-Related Macular Degeneration.Ophthalmic & physiological optics : the journal of the British College of Ophthalmic Opticians (Optometrists) · 2026
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  11. Cell therapy for age-related macular degeneration.Mammalian genome : official journal of the International Mammalian Genome Society · 2026
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  18. Association of current Statin use with incident age-related macular degeneration: using time-varying propensity scores.Graefe's archive for clinical and experimental ophthalmology = Albrecht von Graefes Archiv fur klinische und experimentelle Ophthalmologie · 2026
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114 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

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

4 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Christine A CurcioDepartment of Ophthalmology, University of Alabama School of Medicine, Birmingham, AL 35294-0009, USA. curcio@uab.edu
Mark Johnson
Jiahn-Dar Huang
Martin Rudolf
National Institutes of Health · USNorthwestern University · USUniversity Hospital Schleswig-Holstein · DEUniversity of Alabama · US

Funding

QUANTITATIVE ANAYLSIS OF AGING RETINAR01EY006109 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI CURCIO, CHRISTINE A · 1986 to 2012
$3.5M
Bioengineering of Transport Across Bruch's MembranceR01EY014662 · NEI · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY · PI JOHNSON, MARK · 2003 to 2006
$1.1M
NEI NIH HHS EY014662NEI NIH HHS EY06109NEI NIH HHS R01 EY006109NEI NIH HHS R01 EY014662
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The largest risk factor for age-related macular degeneration (ARMD) is advanced age. A prominent age-related change in the human retina is the accumulation of histochemically detectable neutral lipid in normal Bruch's membrane (BrM) throughout adulthood. This change has the potential to have a major impact on physiology of the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE). It occurs in the same compartment as drusen and basal linear deposit, the pathognomonic extracellular, lipid-containing lesions of ARMD. Here we present evidence from light microscopic histochemistry, ultrastructure, lipid profiling of tissues and isolated lipoproteins, and gene expression analysis that this deposition can be accounted for by esterified cholesterol-rich, apolipoprotein B-containing lipoprotein particles constitutively produced by the RPE. This work collectively allows ARMD lesion formation and its aftermath to be conceptualized as a response to the retention of a sub-endothelial apolipoprotein B lipoprotein, similar to a widely accepted model of atherosclerotic coronary artery disease (CAD) (Tabas et al., 2007). This approach provides a wide knowledge base and sophisticated clinical armamentarium that can be readily exploited for the development of new model systems and the future benefit of ARMD patients.

Indexed as

AgingMacular DegenerationAnimalsApolipoproteins BBruch MembraneCardiovascular DiseasesCholesterolDisease Models, AnimalHumansLipoproteinsModels, BiologicalPigment Epithelium of EyeRetinaRisk FactorsApolipoproteins BCholesterolLipoproteins

Identifiers

PMID19698799
PMCPMC4319375
OpenAlexW1972444897

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