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ArticleBiomedicines2024

Peripheral Blood B-Cell Subsets Frequency and Distribution and the BSF-2(IL-6) to CSIF:TGIF(IL-10) Ratio as Severity-Associated Signatures in Primary Open-Angle Glaucoma: A Case-Controlled Study.

Entsar R Mokhtar, Asmaa A Elmadbouly, Omaima I Abo Elkheir, Mona Nabeh Mansour, Shahinaz El Attar, Mohamed A Heiba, Mennatullah N Mohamed, Heba Elhakeem, Lamia A Gad, Heba Mahmoud Abdelrahman and 4 more

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Article in Biomedicines, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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14 authors at 5 institutions in 1 country.

Entsar R MokhtarClinical Pathology Department, Faculty of Medicine (for Girls), Al-Azhar University, Cairo 11884, Egypt.
Asmaa A ElmadboulyClinical Pathology Department, Faculty of Medicine (for Girls), Al-Azhar University, Cairo 11884, Egypt.ORCID 0000-0003-2873-3268
Omaima I Abo ElkheirCommunity Medicine and Public Health Department, Faculty of Medicine (for Girls), Al-Azhar University, Cairo 11884, Egypt.ORCID 0000-0002-1943-4509
Mona Nabeh MansourOphthalmology Department, Faculty of Medicine (for Girls), Al-Azhar University, Cairo 11884, Egypt.
Shahinaz El AttarMedical Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Department, Faculty of Medicine (for Girls), Al-Azhar University, Cairo 11884, Egypt.ORCID 0000-0001-9293-756X
Mohamed A HeibaFaculty of Medicine, Alexandria National University, Alexandria 21526, Egypt.
Mennatullah N MohamedKasr Al-Ainy, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo 11562, Egypt.
Heba ElhakeemClinical Pathology Department, Faculty of Medicine (for Girls), Al-Azhar University, Cairo 11884, Egypt.
Lamia A GadClinical Pathology Department, Faculty of Medicine (for Girls), Al-Azhar University, Cairo 11884, Egypt.
Heba Mahmoud AbdelrahmanOphthalmology Department, Faculty of Medicine (for Girls), Al-Azhar University, Cairo 11884, Egypt.
Rehab Moustafa KamelOphthalmology Department, Faculty of Medicine (for Girls), Al-Azhar University, Cairo 11884, Egypt.
Hekmat M El MagdoubBiochemistry Department, Faculty of Pharmacy, Misr International University (MIU), Cairo 44971, Egypt.
Nadia M HamdyBiochemistry Department, Faculty of Pharmacy, Ain Shams University, Abassia, Cairo 11566, Egypt.ORCID 0000-0003-2105-107X
Doaa Aly Abd El-FattahClinical Pathology Department, Faculty of Medicine (for Girls), Al-Azhar University, Cairo 11884, Egypt.
Al-Azhar University · EGAin Shams University · EGAlexandria University · EGCairo University · EGMisr International University · EG

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Although primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG) is a major cause of blindness worldwide, patients' immune response and its relation to the disease course have not been fully unraveled in terms of analyses of circulating B-cell subsets, as well as the association of these subsets with the severity of POAG clinical features. SUBJECTS AND

methodsFlow cytometry was used to determine B-cell subset frequencies from 30 POAG patients grouped by hierarchical cluster analysis or the mean deviation (MD) of the visual field (VF) and correlated with the patients' clinical and pathological data, as well as with BSF-2(IL-6) and CSIF:TGIF(IL-10), which were quantified in peripheral blood samples of patients and controls by ELISA.

resultsThe total B-cell frequency was increased in the POAG group in comparison to the control group (n = 30). Frequencies of specific B-cell subsets, such as double-negative (DN) and naïve B-cell subsets, were increased in relation to the severity of the POAG disease. However, the unswitched memory B compartment subset decreased in the POAG group. Other non-typical B-cell subsets such as DN B cells also showed significant changes according to the POAG disease severity course. These differences allow us to identify POAG severity-associated inflammatory clusters in patients with specifically altered B-cell subsets. Finally, ocular parameters, biomarkers of inflammation, and other glaucoma-related or non-clinical scores exhibited correlations with some of these B-cell subpopulations.

conclusionThe severity of the POAG disease course is accompanied by changes in the B-cell subpopulation, namely, DN B cells. Furthermore, the existing relationship of the B-cell subset frequencies with the clinical and the inflammatory parameters BSF-2(IL-6), CSIF:TGIF(IL-10), and the BSF-2(IL-6) to CSIF:TGIF(IL-10) ratio suggests that these B lymphocyte cells could serve as potential molecular bio-markers for assessing POAG disease severity and/or progression.

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B-cells subsetsBSF-2(IL-6) to CSIF:TGIF(IL-10) ratiodouble-negative B cellsglaucomain silicoPOAG

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