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ReviewCells2021

The Impact of Oxidative Stress on Blood-Retinal Barrier Physiology in Age-Related Macular Degeneration.

Annamaria Tisi, Marco Feligioni, Maurizio Passacantando, Marco Ciancaglini, Rita Maccarone

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Review in Cells, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 91 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
91citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
18.3field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

91 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 133 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Annamaria TisiDepartment of Biotechnological and Applied Clinical Sciences, University of L'Aquila, 67100 L'Aquila, Italy.
Marco FeligioniEuropean Brain Research Institute, 00161 Rome, Italy.
Maurizio PassacantandoDepartment of Physical and Chemical Sciences, University of L'Aquila, 67100 L'Aquila, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-3680-5295
Marco CiancagliniDepartment of Life, Health and Environmental Sciences, University of L'Aquila, 67100 L'Aquila, Italy.
Rita MaccaroneDepartment of Biotechnological and Applied Clinical Sciences, University of L'Aquila, 67100 L'Aquila, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-0648-3771
University of L'Aquila · ITEuropean Brain Research Institute · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The blood retinal barrier (BRB) is a fundamental eye component, whose function is to select the flow of molecules from the blood to the retina and vice-versa, and its integrity allows the maintenance of a finely regulated microenvironment. The outer BRB, composed by the choriocapillaris, the Bruch's membrane, and the retinal pigment epithelium, undergoes structural and functional changes in age-related macular degeneration (AMD), the leading cause of blindness worldwide. BRB alterations lead to retinal dysfunction and neurodegeneration. Several risk factors have been associated with AMD onset in the past decades and oxidative stress is widely recognized as a key factor, even if the exact AMD pathophysiology has not been exactly elucidated yet. The present review describes the BRB physiology, the BRB changes occurring in AMD, the role of oxidative stress in AMD with a focus on the outer BRB structures. Moreover, we propose the use of cerium oxide nanoparticles as a new powerful anti-oxidant agent to combat AMD, based on the relevant existing data which demonstrated their beneficial effects in protecting the outer BRB in animal models of AMD.

Indexed as

Oxidative StressAnimalsBlood-Retinal BarrierDisease Models, AnimalHumansMacular DegenerationNanoparticlesage-related macular degenerationblood retinal barrieroxidative stressphysiology

Identifiers

PMID33406612
PMCPMC7823525
OpenAlexW3119684200

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