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Chapter and Conference Paper
Therapeutic Approaches to Histone Reprogramming in Retinal Degeneration
Recent data have revealed epigenetic derangements and subsequent chromatin remodeling as a potent biologic switch for chronic inflammation and cell survival which are important therapeutic targets in the patho...
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Article
The Immune System and AMD
Age-related macular degeneration is a complex, multifactorial disease that has yet to be completely understood. Significant efforts in the basic and clinical sciences have unveiled numerous areas that appear t...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Window to Innate Neuroimmunity: Toll-Like Receptor-Mediated Cell Responses in the Retina
The retina and its supporting cellular architecture are a valuable biologic system to study neurocytotoxic responses that may reveal important pathways in both retinal and neural degenerative diseases. The inn...
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Article
DICER1 deficit induces Alu RNA toxicity in age-related macular degeneration
Geographic atrophy (GA), an untreatable advanced form of age-related macular degeneration, results from retinal pigmented epithelium (RPE) cell degeneration. Here we show that the microRNA (miRNA)-processing e...
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Article
Alternatively spliced vascular endothelial growth factor receptor-2 is an essential endogenous inhibitor of lymphatic vessel growth
Although endogenous inhibitors of blood vessel growth have been studied extensively, specific inhibitors of lymphatic vessel growth have not been identified. Albuquerque et al. now identify truncated, secreted ve...
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Article
CCR3 is a target for age-related macular degeneration diagnosis and therapy
Age-related macular degeneration (AMD), a leading cause of blindness worldwide, is as prevalent as cancer in industrialized nations. Most blindness in AMD results from invasion of the retina by choroidal neova...
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Article
Sequence- and target-independent angiogenesis suppression by siRNA via TLR3
Clinical trials of small interfering RNA (siRNA) targeting vascular endothelial growth factor-A (VEGFA) or its receptor VEGFR1 (also called FLT1), in patients with blinding choroidal neovascularization (CNV) from...
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Article
Corneal avascularity is due to soluble VEGF receptor-1
The cornea is one of the few tissues in the body with no blood vessels flowing through it. This blood-vessel-free island is often used to test anti-angiogenic therapies for cancer, arthritis, atherosclerosis, ...
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Article
Progenitor cell trafficking is regulated by hypoxic gradients through HIF-1 induction of SDF-1
The trafficking of circulating stem and progenitor cells to areas of tissue damage is poorly understood. The chemokine stromal cell–derived factor-1 (SDF-1 or CXCL12) mediates homing of stem cells to bone marr...