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ReviewAntioxidants (Basel, Switzerland)2023

Oxidative Stress and Antioxidants in Age-Related Macular Degeneration.

Neetu Kushwah, Kiran Bora, Meenakshi Maurya, Madeline C Pavlovich, Jing Chen

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Review in Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 89 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
89citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
33.7field-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

89 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 122 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.

Neetu KushwahDepartment of Ophthalmology, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Kiran BoraDepartment of Ophthalmology, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Meenakshi MauryaDepartment of Ophthalmology, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Madeline C PavlovichDepartment of Ophthalmology, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Jing ChenDepartment of Ophthalmology, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Boston Children's Hospital · USHarvard University · US

Funding

RORalpha mediates chronic subretinal inflammation associated with AMDR01EY024963 · NEI · BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL · PI CHEN, JING · 2015 to 2025
$4.2M
Regulation of RPE degeneration by REV-ERBalphaR01EY031765 · NEI · BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL · PI JING CHEN · 2020 to 2026
$2.7M
Wnt signaling-mediated control of blood-retinal barrierR01EY028100 · NEI · BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL · PI CHEN, JING · 2017 to 2021
$2.2M
NEI NIH HHS EY031765, EY028100, and EY024963NEI NIH HHS R01 EY024963NEI NIH HHS R01 EY028100NEI NIH HHS R01 EY031765
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Oxidative stress plays a crucial role in aging-related eye diseases, including age-related macular degeneration (AMD), cataracts, and glaucoma. With age, antioxidant reparative capacity decreases, and excess levels of reactive oxygen species produce oxidative damage in many ocular cell types underling age-related pathologies. In AMD, loss of central vision in the elderly is caused primarily by retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) dysfunction and degeneration and/or choroidal neovascularization that trigger malfunction and loss of photo-sensing photoreceptor cells. Along with various genetic and environmental factors that contribute to AMD, aging and age-related oxidative damage have critical involvement in AMD pathogenesis. To this end, dietary intake of antioxidants is a proven way to scavenge free radicals and to prevent or slow AMD progression. This review focuses on AMD and highlights the pathogenic role of oxidative stress in AMD from both clinical and experimental studies. The beneficial roles of antioxidants and dietary micronutrients in AMD are also summarized.

Indexed as

age-related macular degenerationantioxidantchoroidal neovascularizationoxidative stressreactive oxygen speciesretinal pigment epithelium

Identifiers

PMID37507918
PMCPMC10376043
OpenAlexW4383265788

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