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ArticleInfection and immunity2023

Butyrate Ameliorates Intraocular Bacterial Infection by Promoting Autophagy and Attenuating the Inflammatory Response.

Sukhvinder Singh, Pawan Kumar Singh, Ashok Kumar

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Article in Infection and immunity, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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17citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
3.3field-weighted citation impact, top 7% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

17 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 20 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. The microbiota-proteostasis axis: implications in neurodegenerative diseases.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 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 2 institutions in 1 country.

Sukhvinder SinghDepartment of Ophthalmology, Visual and Anatomical Sciences, Kresge Eye Institute, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan, USA.
Pawan Kumar SinghDepartment of Ophthalmology/Mason Eye Institute, University of Missouri School of Medicine, Columbia, Missouri, USA.
Ashok KumarDepartment of Ophthalmology, Visual and Anatomical Sciences, Kresge Eye Institute, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-6332-6591
Wayne State University · USUniversity of Missouri · US

Funding

VISION RESEARCH--COREP30EY004068 · NEI · WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY · PI LINDA D HAZLETT · 1985 to 2026
$13.2M
Targeting NAD metabolism to ameliorate bacterial endophthalmitisR01EY026964 · NEI · WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY · PI Ashok Kumar · 2017 to 2026
$3.7M
Mechanisms of Inflammation Resolution in Bacterial EndophthalmitisR01EY027381 · NEI · WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY · PI Ashok Kumar · 2017 to 2026
$3.3M
Role of Zika virus (ZIKV) infection in glaucoma pathobiologyR01EY032495 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-COLUMBIA · PI SINGH, PAWAN KUMAR · 2021 to 2025
$2.0M
Genomic evidences based novel therapy for Staphylococcal infectionsR21AI140033 · NIAID · WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY · PI BHASIN, MANOJ, KUMAR, ASHOK · 2019 to 2020
$456k
ADAR1-mediated antiviral response in Zika virus (ZIKV) infectionR21AI149385 · NIAID · WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY · PI KUMAR, ASHOK · 2022 to 2023
$424k
NEI NIH HHS P30 EY004068NEI NIH HHS R01 EY026964NEI NIH HHS R01 EY027381NEI NIH HHS R01 EY032495NIAID NIH HHS R21 AI140033NIAID NIH HHS R21 AI149385
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Despite an important link between the gut and ocular health, the role of the gut-eye axis remains elusive in ocular infections. In this study, we investigated the role of butyrate, a gut microbial metabolite, in the pathobiology of intraocular bacterial (Staphylococcus aureus) infection, endophthalmitis. We found that intravitreal administration of butyrate derivatives, sodium butyrate (NaB), or phenylbutyrate (PBA) reduced intraocular bacterial growth and retinal inflammatory response. The ocular tissue architecture and retinal function were preserved in butyrate-treated eyes. In cultured mouse bone marrow-derived macrophages (BMDMs) and human retinal Müller glia, NaB or PBA treatment reduced S. aureus

Indexed as

EndophthalmitisEye Infections, BacterialStaphylococcal InfectionsAnimalsAutophagyButyratesHumansInflammasomesMiceMice, Inbred C57BLNLR Family, Pyrin Domain-Containing 3 ProteinPhenylbutyratesStaphylococcus aureus4-phenylbutyric acidButyratesInflammasomesNLR Family, Pyrin Domain-Containing 3 ProteinPhenylbutyratesAMPKautophagybutyrateendophthalmitiseyeinflammationinnate immunityretinaStaphylococcus aureus

Identifiers

PMID36515524
PMCPMC9872663
OpenAlexW4311489384

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