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ArticleCommunications biology2022

Suppression of trabecular meshwork phagocytosis by norepinephrine is associated with nocturnal increase in intraocular pressure in mice.

Keisuke Ikegami, Satoru Masubuchi

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Article in Communications biology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.

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16 citing papers in PubMed, 19 citations in OpenAlex.

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2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Keisuke IkegamiDepartment of Physiology, School of Medicine, Aichi Medical University, 1-1 Yazako-karimata, Nagakute, Aichi, 480-1195, Japan. ikegami.keisuke.910@mail.aichi-med-u.ac.jp.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5606-3965
Satoru MasubuchiDepartment of Physiology, School of Medicine, Aichi Medical University, 1-1 Yazako-karimata, Nagakute, Aichi, 480-1195, Japan.
Aichi Medical University · JP

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Intraocular pressure (IOP) is an important factor in glaucoma development, which involves aqueous humor (AH) dynamics, with inflow from the ciliary body and outflow through the trabecular meshwork (TM). IOP has a circadian rhythm entrained by sympathetic noradrenaline (NE) or adrenal glucocorticoids (GCs). Herein, we investigated the involvement of GC/NE in AH outflow. Pharmacological prevention of inflow/outflow in mice indicated a diurnal outflow increase, which was related to TM phagocytosis. NE showed a non-self-sustained inhibition in phagocytosis of immortalized human TM cells, but not GC. The pharmacological and reverse genetic approaches identified β1-adrenergic receptor (AR)-mediated exchange proteins directly activated by cyclic adenosine monophosphate (EPAC)-SHIP1 signal activation by ablation of phosphatidylinositol triphosphate, regulating phagocytic cup formation. Furthermore, we revealed the phagocytosis involvement in the β1-AR-EPAC-SHIP1-mediated nocturnal IOP rise in mice. These suggest that TM phagocytosis suppression by NE can regulate IOP rhythm through AH outflow. This discovery may aid glaucoma management.

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GlaucomaTrabecular MeshworkAnimalsGuanine Nucleotide Exchange FactorsIntraocular PressureMiceNorepinephrinePhagocytosisGuanine Nucleotide Exchange FactorsNorepinephrine

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PMID35396348
PMCPMC8993819
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