International Union of Basic and Clinical Pharmacology. LXXXIX. Update on the extended family of chemokine receptors and introducing a new nomenclature for …

F Bachelerie, A Ben-Baruch, AM Burkhardt… - Pharmacological …, 2014 - ASPET
Sixteen years ago, the Nomenclature Committee of the International Union of Pharmacology
approved a system for naming human seven-transmembrane (7TM) G protein-coupled …

[HTML][HTML] Mechanisms of age-related macular degeneration

J Ambati, BJ Fowler - Neuron, 2012 - cell.com
Age-related macular degeneration (AMD), a progressive condition that is untreatable in up
to 90% of patients, is a leading cause of blindness in the elderly worldwide. The two forms of …

Immunology of age-related macular degeneration

J Ambati, JP Atkinson, BD Gelfand - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2013 - nature.com
Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a leading cause of blindness in aged
individuals. Recent advances have highlighted the essential role of immune processes in …

LRG1 promotes angiogenesis by modulating endothelial TGF-β signalling

X Wang, S Abraham, JAG McKenzie, N Jeffs, M Swire… - Nature, 2013 - nature.com
Aberrant neovascularization contributes to diseases such as cancer, blindness and
atherosclerosis, and is the consequence of inappropriate angiogenic signalling. Although …

[HTML][HTML] DICER1 loss and Alu RNA induce age-related macular degeneration via the NLRP3 inflammasome and MyD88

V Tarallo, Y Hirano, BD Gelfand, S Dridi, N Kerur… - Cell, 2012 - cell.com
Alu RNA accumulation due to DICER1 deficiency in the retinal pigmented epithelium (RPE)
is implicated in geographic atrophy (GA), an advanced form of age-related macular …

[HTML][HTML] The mouse retina as an angiogenesis model

A Stahl, KM Connor, P Sapieha, J Chen… - … & visual science, 2010 - arvojournals.org
The mouse retina has been used extensively over the past decades to study both
physiologic and pathologic angiogenesis. Over time, various mouse retina models have …

DICER1 deficit induces Alu RNA toxicity in age-related macular degeneration

H Kaneko, S Dridi, V Tarallo, BD Gelfand, BJ Fowler… - Nature, 2011 - nature.com
Geographic atrophy (GA), an untreatable advanced form of age-related macular
degeneration, results from retinal pigmented epithelium (RPE) cell degeneration. Here we …

Ophthalmic drug discovery: novel targets and mechanisms for retinal diseases and glaucoma

K Zhang, L Zhang, RN Weinreb - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2012 - nature.com
Blindness affects 60 million people worldwide. The leading causes of irreversible blindness
include age-related macular degeneration, retinal vascular diseases and glaucoma. The …

Animal models of choroidal and retinal neovascularization

HE Grossniklaus, SJ Kang, L Berglin - Progress in retinal and eye research, 2010 - Elsevier
There have been numerous types of animal models of choroidal neovascularization (CNV)
and retinal neovascularization (RNV). Understanding the pathobiology of CNV and RNV is …

[HTML][HTML] Chemokine mediated monocyte trafficking into the retina: role of inflammation in alteration of the blood-retinal barrier in diabetic retinopathy

S Rangasamy, PG McGuire, C Franco Nitta… - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Inflammation in the diabetic retina is mediated by leukocyte adhesion to the retinal
vasculature and alteration of the blood-retinal barrier (BRB). We investigated the role of …