Animal models of diabetic retinopathy: summary and comparison

AKW Lai, ACY Lo - Journal of diabetes research, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is a microvascular complication associated with chronic exposure
to hyperglycemia and is a major cause of blindness worldwide. Although clinical …

Lipid metabolism dysregulation in diabetic retinopathy

JV Busik - Journal of lipid research, 2021 - ASBMB
Lipid metabolic abnormalities have emerged as potential risk factors for the development
and progression of diabetic complications, including diabetic retinopathy (DR). This review …

Role of ceramides in the pathogenesis of diabetes mellitus and its complications

N Mandal, R Grambergs, K Mondal, SK Basu… - Journal of Diabetes and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a systemic metabolic disease that affects 463 million adults
worldwide and is a leading cause of cardiovascular disease, blindness, nephropathy …

Metabolites as risk factors for diabetic retinopathy in patients with type 2 diabetes: a 12-year follow-up study

L Fernandes Silva, J Hokkanen… - The Journal of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Context Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is a specific microvascular complication in patients with
diabetes and the leading cause of blindness. Recent advances in omics, especially …

Ceramides are fuel gauges on the drive to cardiometabolic disease

JL Wilkerson, SM Tatum, WL Holland… - Physiological …, 2024 - journals.physiology.org
Ceramides are signals of fatty acid excess that accumulate when a cell's energetic needs
have been met and its nutrient storage has reached capacity. As these sphingolipids accrue …

Inhibition of acid sphingomyelinase by tricyclic antidepressants and analogons

N Beckmann, D Sharma, E Gulbins, KA Becker… - Frontiers in …, 2014 - frontiersin.org
Amitriptyline, a tricyclic antidepressant, has been used in the clinic to treat a number of
disorders, in particular major depression and neuropathic pain. In the 1970s the ability of …

Caveolae internalization repairs wounded cells and muscle fibers

M Corrotte, PE Almeida, C Tam, T Castro-Gomes… - Elife, 2013 - elifesciences.org
Rapid repair of plasma membrane wounds is critical for cellular survival. Muscle fibers are
particularly susceptible to injury, and defective sarcolemma resealing causes muscular …

Diabetes mellitus and ischemic diseases: molecular mechanisms of vascular repair dysfunction

KY Howangyin, JS Silvestre - Arteriosclerosis, thrombosis, and …, 2014 - Am Heart Assoc
In patients with diabetes mellitus, the ability of ischemic tissue to synchronize the molecular
and cellular events leading to restoration of tissue perfusion in response to the …

Reducing Akt2 in retinal pigment epithelial cells causes a compensatory increase in Akt1 and attenuates diabetic retinopathy

H Liu, NA Stepicheva, S Ghosh, P Shang… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) plays an important role in the development of diabetic
retinopathy (DR), a leading cause of blindness worldwide. Here we set out to explore the …

Dyslipidemia in retinal metabolic disorders

Z Fu, CT Chen, G Cagnone, E Heckel… - EMBO Molecular …, 2019 - embopress.org
The light‐sensitive photoreceptors in the retina are extremely metabolically demanding and
have the highest density of mitochondria of any cell in the body. Both physiological and …