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ReviewFrontiers in cell and developmental biology2020

Flavins Act as a Critical Liaison Between Metabolic Homeostasis and Oxidative Stress in the Retina.

Tirthankar Sinha, Muna I Naash, Muayyad R Al-Ubaidi

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Review in Frontiers in cell and developmental biology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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13citing papers in PubMed
1.4field-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

13 citing papers in PubMed, 28 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Retbindin Dynamically Redistributes to Preserve Retinal Flavin-Dependent Homeostasis in Response to Riboflavin Availability and Circadian Demand.FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Tirthankar SinhaDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, TX, United States.
Muna I NaashDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, TX, United States.
Muayyad R Al-UbaidiDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, TX, United States.
University of Houston · US

Funding

Supplement for: Mechanism of Photoreceptor Cell Degeneration in Animal Models of Retinal DiseasesR01EY010609 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA HLTH SCIENCES CTR · PI MUAYYAD R AL-UBAIDI, Muna I. Naash · 1995 to 2026
$11.0M
Role of retbindin in retinal homeostasis and diseasesR01EY026499 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON · PI AL-UBAIDI, MUAYYAD R, NAASH, MUNA I. · 2017 to 2019
$1.1M
NEI NIH HHS R01 EY010609NEI NIH HHS R01 EY026499
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Derivatives of the vitamin riboflavin, FAD and FMN, are essential cofactors in a multitude of bio-energetic reactions, indispensable for lipid metabolism and also are requisites in mitigating oxidative stress. Given that a balance between all these processes contributes to the maintenance of retinal homeostasis, effective regulation of riboflavin levels in the retina is paramount. However, various genetic and dietary factors have brought to fore pathological conditions that co-occur with a suboptimal level of flavins in the retina. Our focus in this review is to, comprehensively summarize all the possible metabolic and oxidative reactions which have been implicated in various retinal pathologies and to highlight the contribution flavins may have played in these. Recent research has found a sensitive method of measuring flavins in both diseased and healthy retina, presence of a novel flavin binding protein exclusively expressed in the retina, and the presence of flavin specific transporters in both the inner and outer blood-retina barriers. In light of these exciting findings, it is even more imperative to shift our focus on how the retina regulates its flavin homeostasis and what happens when this is disrupted.

Indexed as

fatty acid oxidationmitochondriaoxidative stressredox potentialretbindinretina metabolismriboflavin

Identifiers

PMID32984341
PMCPMC7481326
OpenAlexW3080852292

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