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ArticleJournal of clinical medicine2019

Loss of XBP1 Leads to Early-Onset Retinal Neurodegeneration in a Mouse Model of Type I Diabetes.

Todd McLaughlin, Manhal Siddiqi, Joshua J Wang, Sarah X Zhang

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Article in Journal of clinical medicine, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.

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16citing papers in PubMed
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16 citing papers in PubMed, 22 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Todd McLaughlinDepartments of Ophthalmology and Ross Eye Institute, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14203, USA. toddmcla@buffalo.edu.
Manhal SiddiqiDepartments of Ophthalmology and Ross Eye Institute, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14203, USA. manhalsi@buffalo.edu.
Joshua J WangDepartments of Ophthalmology and Ross Eye Institute, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14203, USA. jianxinw@buffalo.edu.
Sarah X ZhangDepartments of Ophthalmology and Ross Eye Institute, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14203, USA. xzhang38@buffalo.edu.
University at Buffalo, State University of New York · US

Funding

ER Stress and Diabetic RetinopathyR01EY019949 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA HLTH SCIENCES CTR · PI ZHANG, SARAH X · 2010 to 2023
$5.5M
Study of the ER-mitochondria interface as a new target in diabetic retinopathyR21EY025061 · NEI · STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BUFFALO · PI ZHANG, SARAH X · 2015 to 2016
$438k
NEI NIH HHS EY019949; EY025061NEI NIH HHS R01 EY019949NEI NIH HHS R21 EY025061Research to Prevent Blindness an Unrestricted Grant to the Department of Ophthalmology, SUNY-Buffalo
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Retinal neuronal injury and degeneration is one of the primary manifestations of diabetic retinopathy, a leading cause of vision loss in working age adults. In pathological conditions, including diabetes and some physiological conditions such as aging, protein homeostasis can become disrupted, leading to endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress. Severe or unmitigated ER stress can lead to cell death, which in retinal neurons results in irreversible loss of visual function. X-box binding protein 1 (XBP1) is a major transcription factor responsible for the adaptive unfolded protein response (UPR) to maintain protein homeostasis in cells undergoing ER stress. The purpose of this study is to determine the role of XBP1-mediated UPR in retinal neuronal survival and function in a mouse model of type 1 diabetes. Using a conditional retina-specific XBP1 knockout mouse line, we demonstrate that depletion of XBP1 in retinal neurons results in early onset retinal function decline, loss of retinal ganglion cells and photoreceptors, disrupted photoreceptor ribbon synapses, and Müller cell activation after induction of diabetes. Our findings suggest an important role of XBP1-mediated adaptive UPR in retinal neuronal survival and function in diabetes.

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diabetic retinopathyneurodegenerationphotoreceptorssynapsesX-box binding protein 1

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PMID31242599
PMCPMC6617367
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