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ReviewExperimental eye research2025

Features that distinguish age-related macular degeneration from aging.

Dorota Skowronska-Krawczyk, Silvia C Finnemann, Maria B Grant, Katherine Held, Zhengping Hu, Yuancheng Ryan Lu, Goldis Malek, Florian Sennlaub, Janet Sparrow, Patricia A D'Amore

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Review in Experimental eye research, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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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

7 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. A mutation inMolecular vision · 2026
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  5. Pleiotropic regulatory mechanisms and targeted therapeutic prospects of Galectin-3 in aging-related diseases.Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors.

Dorota Skowronska-KrawczykCenter for Translational Vision Research, School of Medicine, UC Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA. Electronic address: dorotask@hs.uci.edu.
Silvia C FinnemannDepartment of Biological Sciences, Fordham University, Bronx, NY, USA.
Maria B GrantDepartment of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Marnix E. Heersink School of Medicine University of Alabama at Birmingham, Alabama, USA.
Katherine HeldOphthalmology Discovery Research, AbbVie Inc., Irvine, CA, USA.
Zhengping HuSchepens Eye Research Institute of Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Boston, MA, USA; Departments of Ophthalmology and Pathology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Yuancheng Ryan LuWhitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Goldis MalekDuke University, Departments of Ophthalmology, Pathology, and Cell Biology, Albert Eye Research Institute, Durham, NC, USA.
Florian SennlaubSorbonne Université, INSERM, CNRS, Institut de la Vision, 17 rue Moreau, F-75012, Paris, France.
Janet SparrowDepartments of Ophthalmology and Pathology and Cell Biology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, USA.
Patricia A D'AmoreSchepens Eye Research Institute of Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Boston, MA, USA; Departments of Ophthalmology and Pathology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.

Funding

VISION RESEARCHP30EY005722 · NEI · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI Goldis Malek · 1985 to 2026
$19.3M
Visual Phenotyping CoreP30EY003039 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM · PI Paul Douglas Gamlin · 1985 to 2026
$16.9M
NITRIC OXIDE IN THE PATHOGENESIS OF DIABETIC RETINOPATHYR01EY012601 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA · PI Julia V Busik, Maria Bartolomeo Grant · 1998 to 2026
$9.6M
Investigation of endomucin as a novel regulator of angiogenesisR01EY026539 · NEI · SCHEPENS EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE · PI D'AMORE, PATRICIA ANN · 2017 to 2024
$4.1M
Inflammation in MERTK-dependent retinitis pigmentosaR01EY034003 · NEI · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI SILVIA C FINNEMANN, Sourav Ghosh · 2023 to 2026
$2.6M
ACE2 on gut barrier dysfunction and BRB disruptionR01EY032753 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM · PI Michael Edwin Boulton, Maria Bartolomeo Grant · 2022 to 2026
$1.8M
Nuclear receptor driven mechanisms in aging and AMDR01EY032751 · NEI · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI MALEK, GOLDIS · 2021 to 2024
$1.8M
Deciphering the role of osteopontin in the aging eye and age-related macular degenerationR01EY035126 · NEI · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI Goldis Malek · 2023 to 2026
$1.8M
Correlating Genomic AMD Risk Variants with Lipid Composition and Phagocytic Function of Patient-Derived Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell (iPSC)-derived Retinal Pigment Epithelium (RPE)U01EY034594 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-IRVINE · PI SKOWRONSKA-KRAWCZYK, DOROTA, WAHLIN, KARL J · 2022 to 2025
$1.6M
Partial epigenetic reprogramming of retinal pigment cells in age-related degeneration, dysfunction, and injuryK99EY034938 · NEI · SCHEPENS EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE · PI HU, ZHENGPING · 2023 to 2024
$228k
NEI NIH HHS K99 EY034938NEI NIH HHS P30 EY003039NEI NIH HHS P30 EY005722NEI NIH HHS R01 EY012601NEI NIH HHS R01 EY026539NEI NIH HHS R01 EY032751NEI NIH HHS R01 EY032753NEI NIH HHS R01 EY034003NEI NIH HHS R01 EY035126NEI NIH HHS U01 EY034594
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a complex, multifactorial retinal degenerative disease that is influenced by both genetic and environmental factors. However, the strongest risk factor for AMD is advanced age. Several physiological processes are observed in aging tissues including a low level of chronic inflammation (inflammaging), changed lipid and energy metabolism, and senescence. Nevertheless, whereas everyone ages, only a subset of the population develops AMD. The purpose of this review is to delineate the differences on a cellular and molecular level between natural aging changes and those observed in AMD. We provide a unique perspective on how genetic and environmental components modulate aging in the eye, as well as the specific role of the aging RPE and retina in the pathogenesis of AMD. Topics discussed include the mechanism of aging and its relation to the mechanism of AMD, current animal models that can be used to recapitulate some aspects of the pathology, and potential interventions that shift the balance towards healthy aging and therefore attenuate, prevent or delay the initiation of the disease.

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AgingMacular DegenerationAnimalsDisease Models, AnimalHumansRetinal Pigment Epithelium

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PMID39986366
PMCPMC11975485

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