Macrophages in close proximity to the vitreoretinal interface are potential biomarkers of inflammation during retinal vascular disease

A Rajesh, S Droho, JA Lavine - Journal of neuroinflammation, 2022 - Springer
Background Diabetic retinopathy and retinal vein occlusion are vision threatening retinal
vascular diseases. Current first-line therapy targets the vascular component, but many …

[HTML][HTML] Macrophage-like cell density is increased in proliferative diabetic retinopathy characterized by optical coherence tomography angiography

JX Ong, PL Nesper, AA Fawzi… - … & visual science, 2021 - tvst.arvojournals.org
Purpose: To quantitatively characterize macrophage-like cells (MLCs) at the vitreoretinal
interface in different severity stages of diabetic retinopathy (DR) using optical coherence …

Macrophage-like cells are still detectable on the retinal surface after posterior vitreous detachment

JM Wang, JX Ong, PL Nesper, AA Fawzi, JA Lavine - Scientific reports, 2022 - nature.com
The identity of vitreoretinal interface macrophage-like cells (MLCs) remains unknown and
potential candidates include retinal microglia, perivascular macrophages, monocyte-derived …

Heterotypic macrophages/microglia differentially contribute to retinal ischaemia and neovascularisation

M Yamaguchi, S Nakao, M Arima, K Little, A Singh… - Diabetologia, 2024 - Springer
Aims/hypothesis Diabetic retinopathy is characterised by neuroinflammation that drives
neuronal and vascular degenerative pathology, which in many individuals can lead to retinal …

Differences in the distribution, phenotype and gene expression of subretinal microglia/macrophages in C57BL/6N (Crb1rd8/rd8) versus C57BL6/J (Crb1wt/wt) mice

B Aredo, K Zhang, X Chen, CXZ Wang, T Li… - Journal of …, 2015 - Springer
Abstract Background Microglia/macrophages (MG/MΦ) are found in the subretinal space in
both mice and humans. Our goal was to study the spatial and temporal distribution, the …

[HTML][HTML] Imaging of macrophage-like cells in living human retina using clinical OCT

MV Castanos, DB Zhou, RE Linderman… - … & visual science, 2020 - arvojournals.org
Purpose: To image retinal macrophages at the vitreoretinal interface in the living human
retina using a clinical optical coherence tomography (OCT) device. Methods: Eighteen …

[HTML][HTML] Anti-vascular endothelial growth factor acts on retinal microglia/macrophage activation in a rat model of ocular inflammation

A Couturier, E Bousquet, M Zhao, MC Naud… - Molecular …, 2014 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Purpose To evaluate whether anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) neutralizing
antibodies injected in the vitreous of rat eyes influence retinal microglia and macrophage …

Macrophage-like cells are increased in patients with vision-threatening diabetic retinopathy and correlate with macular edema

NT Zhang, PL Nesper, JX Ong, JM Wang, AA Fawzi… - Diagnostics, 2022 - mdpi.com
Macrophage-like cells (MLCs) are potential inflammatory biomarkers. We previously showed
that MLCs are increased in proliferative diabetic retinopathy (PDR) eyes. Vision-threatening …

Fate mapping reveals that microglia and recruited monocyte-derived macrophages are definitively distinguishable by phenotype in the retina

EG O'Koren, R Mathew, DR Saban - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
The recent paradigm shift that microglia are yolk sac-derived, not hematopoietic-derived, is
reshaping our knowledge about the isolated role of microglia in CNS diseases, including …

Monocyte infiltration rather than microglia proliferation dominates the early immune response to rapid photoreceptor degeneration

SJ Karlen, EB Miller, X Wang, ES Levine… - Journal of …, 2018 - Springer
Background Activation of resident microglia accompanies every known form of
neurodegeneration, but the involvement of peripheral monocytes that extravasate and …