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ReviewVisual neuroscience2020

Preventing diabetic retinopathy by mitigating subretinal space oxidative stress

Bruce A Berkowitz

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Review in Visual neuroscience, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.

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19citing papers in PubMed
1.3field-weighted citation impact, top 20% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

19 citing papers in PubMed, 16 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Bruce A BerkowitzDepartment of Ophthalmology, Visual, and Anatomical Sciences, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan.
Wayne State University · US

Funding

Novel Imaging Biomarker for Treating Spatial Memory Loss in Prodromal Alzheimer's Disease ModelsR01AG058171 · NIA · WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY · PI BENNETT, BRIAN M, BERKOWITZ, BRUCE A. · 2017 to 2021
$2.8M
Novel Imaging of rod oxidative stress in retinal disease and treatment in vivoR01EY026584 · NEI · WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY · PI BERKOWITZ, BRUCE A. · 2016 to 2019
$1.5M
NEI NIH HHS R01 EY026584NIA NIH HHS R01 AG058171
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Patients with diabetes continue to suffer from impaired visual performance before the appearance of overt damage to the retinal microvasculature and later sight-threatening complications. This diabetic retinopathy (DR) has long been thought to start with endothelial cell oxidative stress. Yet newer data surprisingly finds that the avascular outer retina is the primary site of oxidative stress before microvascular histopathology in experimental DR. Importantly, correcting this early oxidative stress is sufficient to restore vision and mitigate the histopathology in diabetic models. However, translating these promising results into the clinic has been stymied by an absence of methods that can measure and optimize anti-oxidant treatment efficacy in vivo. Here, we review imaging approaches that address this problem. In particular, diabetes-induced oxidative stress impairs dark-light regulation of subretinal space hydration, which regulates the distribution of interphotoreceptor binding protein (IRBP). IRBP is a vision-critical, anti-oxidant, lipid transporter, and pro-survival factor. We show how optical coherence tomography can measure subretinal space oxidative stress thus setting the stage for personalizing anti-oxidant treatment and prevention of impactful declines and loss of vision in patients with diabetes.

Indexed as

AnimalsCalcium Channels, L-TypeDiabetic RetinopathyEpendymoglial CellsExtracellular SpaceHumansMagnetic Resonance ImagingOxidative StressPhotoreceptor Cells, VertebrateRetinal Pigment EpitheliumSignal TransductionTomography, Optical CoherenceCalcium Channels, L-Typediffusion MRIfree radicalsL-type calcium channelsMRIOCTphotoreceptorsretina

Identifiers

PMID32536351
PMCPMC7310384
OpenAlexW3034318411

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