ArticleBMJ open diabetes research & care2020
Rod phototransduction and light signal transmission during type 2 diabetes.
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- Long-Term Impairment of Retinal Ganglion Cell Function After Oxygen-Induced Retinopathy.Cells · 2025Article
- Retinal Docosahexaenoic Acid Is Significantly Reduced in Diabetic Humans and Mice: Possible Relationship to Diabetic Retinopathy.Investigative ophthalmology & visual science · 2024Article
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- Systemic Reduction of Glut1 Normalizes Retinal Dysfunction, Inflammation, and Oxidative Stress in the Retina of Spontaneous Type 2 Diabetic Mice.The American journal of pathology · 2023Article
- Proinflammatory Cytokines Trigger the Onset of Retinal Abnormalities and Metabolic Dysregulation in a Hyperglycemic Mouse Model.Journal of ophthalmology · 2023Article
- Full-field and multifocal electroretinogram in non-diabetic controls and diabetics with and without retinopathy.Acta ophthalmologica · 2022Article
- Optimizing the Setup and Conditions for Ex Vivo Electroretinogram to Study Retina Function in Small and Large Eyes.Journal of visualized experiments : JoVE · 2022Article
- Photoreceptor cells and RPE contribute to the development of diabetic retinopathy.Progress in retinal and eye research · 2021Review
- Diabetic photoreceptors: Mechanisms underlying changes in structure and function.Visual neuroscience · 2020Review
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Abstract
introductionDiabetic retinopathy is a major complication of diabetes recently associated with compromised photoreceptor function. Multiple stressors in diabetes, such as hyperglycemia, oxidative stress and inflammatory factors, have been identified, but systemic effects of diabetes on outer retina function are incompletely understood. We assessed photoreceptor physiology in vivo and in isolated retinas to better understand how alterations in the cellular environment compared with intrinsic cellular/molecular properties of the photoreceptors, affect light signal transduction and transmission in the retina in chronic type 2 diabetes. RESEARCH DESIGN AND
methodsPhotoreceptor function was assessed in BKS.Cs-Dock7
resultsWe found that both transduction and transmission of light signals by rod photoreceptors were compromised in 6-month-old (n=9-10 eyes from 5 animals, ***p<0.001) but not in 3-month-old diabetic mice in vivo (n=4-8 eyes from 2 to 4 animals). In contrast, rod signaling was similar in isolated retinas from 6-month-old control and diabetic mice under normoglycemic conditions (n=11). Acutely elevated glucose ex vivo increased light-evoked rod photoreceptor responses in control mice (n=11, ***p<0.001), but did not affect light responses in diabetic mice (n=11).
conclusionsOur data suggest that long-term diabetes does not irreversibly change the ability of rod photoreceptors to transduce and mediate light signals. However, type 2 diabetes appears to induce adaptational changes in the rods that render them less sensitive to increased availability of glucose.
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