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ArticleThe American journal of pathology2021

Characterization of Clinical and Immune Responses in an Experimental Chronic Autoimmune Uveitis Model.

Nai-Wen Fan, Joy Li, Sharad K Mittal, William Foulsham, Elsayed Elbasiony, Rachel M Huckfeldt, Sunil K Chauhan, Yihe Chen

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Article in The American journal of pathology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

20 citing papers in PubMed, 20 citations in OpenAlex.

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  5. Memory CD4Frontiers in immunology · 2026
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  7. Comparative models of uveitis.Eye (London, England) · 2025
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  18. Long-lived autoreactive memory CD4FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology · 2023
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  19. CD4International journal of molecular sciences · 2021
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 1 institution in 2 countries.

Nai-Wen FanDepartment of Ophthalmology, Schepens Eye Research Institute of Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts; Department of Ophthalmology, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan; Faculty of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University School of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan.
Joy LiDepartment of Ophthalmology, Schepens Eye Research Institute of Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
Sharad K MittalDepartment of Ophthalmology, Schepens Eye Research Institute of Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
William FoulshamDepartment of Ophthalmology, Schepens Eye Research Institute of Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
Elsayed ElbasionyDepartment of Ophthalmology, Schepens Eye Research Institute of Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
Rachel M HuckfeldtDepartment of Ophthalmology, Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
Sunil K ChauhanDepartment of Ophthalmology, Schepens Eye Research Institute of Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
Yihe ChenDepartment of Ophthalmology, Schepens Eye Research Institute of Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts. Electronic address: yihe_chen@meei.harvard.edu.
Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary · US

Funding

VISION RESEARCHP30EY003790 · NEI · SCHEPENS EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE · PI Patricia Ann D'Amore · 1985 to 2026
$25.5M
Ocular Immune Regulation by Mesenchymal Stem CellsR01EY024602 · NEI · SCHEPENS EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE · PI CHAUHAN, SUNIL K · 2015 to 2025
$6.5M
NEI NIH HHS P30 EY003790NEI NIH HHS R01 EY024602
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Autoimmune uveitis is a sight-threatening intraocular inflammatory disease. For >30 years, the mouse model of experimental autoimmune uveitis has been employed to investigate disease mechanisms and test immunotherapeutic approaches. However, inflammation in this model is self-limited, and does not replicate the chronic, insidious nature prevalent in the human disease. Herein, a robust and reliable model of chronic autoimmune uveitis was developed and characterized in two strains of wild-type mice by modifying interphotoreceptor retinoid-binding protein dose and peptide fragments from conventional experimental autoimmune uveitis models. In both of these murine strains, immunization with our modified protocols resulted in a slowly progressive uveitis, with retinal scars and atrophy observed in the chronic stage by fundoscopy. Optical coherence tomography demonstrated decreased retinal thickness in chronic autoimmune uveitis mice, and electroretinography showed significantly reduced amplitudes of dark-adapted a- and b-waves and light-adapted b-waves. Histologic examination revealed prominent choroiditis with extensive retinal damage. Flow cytometry analysis showed substantially increased numbers of CD44

Indexed as

AnimalsAutoimmune DiseasesChronic DiseaseDisease Models, AnimalImmunityInflammationMiceMice, Inbred C57BLRetinal DegenerationTh17 CellsUveitis

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PMID32966818
PMCPMC7931616
OpenAlexW3088144672

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