ArticleClinical & translational immunology2020
Is glaucoma an autoimmune disease?
Article in Clinical & translational immunology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.
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- An Update and Overview of the Ocular and Extraocular Microbiome and Its Impact on Ophthalmic Care.Advances in therapy · 2026Review
- GHRHR Deficiency Enhances Retinal Ganglion Cell Survival and Visual Functions in Experimental Glaucoma by Inhibiting Ferroptosis.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026Article
- Correlation of autoantibody profiles with clinical parameters in exfoliative glaucoma patients.International ophthalmology · 2025Article
- Potential Functions and Causal Associations of GNLY in Primary Open-Angle Glaucoma: Integration of Blood-Derived Proteome, Transcriptome, and Experimental Verification.Journal of inflammation research · 2025Article
- Novel insights into immunopathogenesis and crucial biomarkers between primary open-angle glaucoma and systemic lupus erythematosus.iMetaOmics · 2024Article
- Exploring the Ocular Surface Microbiome and Tear Proteome in Glaucoma.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Article
- Identification of biomarker candidates for exfoliative glaucoma from autoimmunity profiling.BMC ophthalmology · 2024Article
- Inflammation and Neurodegeneration in Glaucoma: Isolated Eye Disease or a Part of a Systemic Disorder? - Serum Proteomic Analysis.Journal of inflammation research · 2024Article
- Development of Open-Angle Glaucoma in Adults With Seropositive Rheumatoid Arthritis in Korea.JAMA network open · 2022Article
- T Cell-Mediated Autoimmunity in Glaucoma Neurodegeneration.Frontiers in immunology · 2021Review
- Genetic Susceptibility to Nephrolithiasis: A Genome-Phenome Approach with Polygenic Risk Score Analysis.Kidney diseases (Basel, Switzerland)Article
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Abstract
There is increasing evidence from animal and human studies that glaucoma is an autoimmune disease. Evidence for this hypothesis includes the fact that antibodies as well as T-cell responses to heat-shock proteins (HSPs) are detectable in some patients with glaucoma and in an animal model of the disease. As in the human disease, experimental animal models of glaucoma have been found to demonstrate neurodegenerative changes in the optic nerve associated with immunoglobulin and T-cell infiltration. Although there is still insufficient evidence in humans to classify all cases of glaucoma as autoimmune diseases, the implications of this hypothesis have major impact on the diagnosis and treatment of glaucoma.
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