Role of epithelial-mesenchymal transition in retinal pigment epithelium dysfunction

M Zhou, JS Geathers, SL Grillo, SR Weber… - Frontiers in cell and …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Retinal pigment epithelial (RPE) cells maintain the health and functional integrity of both
photoreceptors and the choroidal vasculature. Loss of RPE differentiation has long been …

Myofibroblasts in macular fibrosis secondary to neovascular age-related macular degeneration-the potential sources and molecular cues for their recruitment and …

K Little, JH Ma, N Yang, M Chen, H Xu - EBioMedicine, 2018 - thelancet.com
Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the leading cause of blindness in the elderly in
developed countries. Neovascular AMD (nAMD) accounts for 90% of AMD-related vision …

Macrophage to myofibroblast transition contributes to subretinal fibrosis secondary to neovascular age-related macular degeneration

K Little, M Llorián-Salvador, M Tang, X Du… - Journal of …, 2020 - Springer
Background Macular fibrosis causes irreparable vision loss in neovascular age-related
macular degeneration (nAMD) even with anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) …

A systems biology approach uncovers novel disease mechanisms in age-related macular degeneration

LD Orozco, LA Owen, J Hofmann, AD Stockwell, J Tao… - Cell genomics, 2023 - cell.com
Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a leading cause of blindness, affecting 200
million people worldwide. To identify genes that could be targeted for treatment, we created …

[HTML][HTML] Molecular pathogenesis of subretinal fibrosis in neovascular AMD focusing on epithelial-mesenchymal transformation of retinal pigment epithelium

D Liu, C Zhang, J Zhang, GT Xu, J Zhang - Neurobiology of Disease, 2023 - Elsevier
Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a leading cause of vision loss among elderly
people in developed countries. Neovascular AMD (nAMD) accounts for more than 90% of …

Mechanisms of RPE senescence and potential role of αB crystallin peptide as a senolytic agent in experimental AMD

PG Sreekumar, ST Reddy, DR Hinton… - Experimental eye …, 2022 - Elsevier
Oxidative stress in the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) can cause mitochondrial dysfunction
and is likely a causative factor in the pathogenesis of age-related macular degeneration …

A role for βA3/A1-crystallin in type 2 EMT of RPE cells occurring in dry age-related macular degeneration

S Ghosh, P Shang, H Terasaki… - … & visual science, 2018 - iovs.arvojournals.org
Purpose: The RPE cells have a major role in the development of dry age-related macular
degeneration (AMD). We present novel evidence that βA3/A1-crystallin, encoded by the …

The regulation of NFE2L2 (NRF2) signalling and epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition in age-related macular degeneration pathology

JMT Hyttinen, R Kannan, S Felszeghy… - International journal of …, 2019 - mdpi.com
Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a mounting cause of loss of sight in the elderly
in the developed countries, a trend enhanced by the continual ageing of the population …

METTL3-mediated m6A modification of HMGA2 mRNA promotes subretinal fibrosis and epithelial–mesenchymal transition

Y Wang, Y Chen, J Liang, M Jiang… - Journal of Molecular …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Subretinal fibrosis is a major cause of the poor visual prognosis for patients with
neovascular age-related macular degeneration (nAMD). Myofibroblasts originated from …

Clusterin, other extracellular chaperones, and eye disease

MR Wilson, S Satapathy, S Jeong, ME Fini - Progress in Retinal and eye …, 2022 - Elsevier
Proteostasis refers to all the processes that maintain the correct expression level, location,
folding and turnover of proteins, essential to organismal survival. Both inside cells and in …