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Secretoneurin (SN) is a neuropeptide derived from secretogranin II (SgII), mainly are involved in neuroendocrine system. The present study is aimed to investigate the role of SN in retinal pathological neovascularization and physiological vasculature. In the study, we found the overexpression of SgII in retina of Oxygen-Induced Retinopathy (OIR) mouse model, and SgII knockdown could alleviate pathological retinal neovascularization in OIR. Conversely, SgII knockdown have no detectable effect in embryonic physiological vasculature. Experiments in vitro and in vivo further verified SN's angiogenic effect on the eye. In further, we identified that SN promoted angiogenesis via activation of Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor (EGFR), Insulin Receptor (IR), and Insulin-like Growth Factor 1 Receptor (IGF-1R), and followed by the phosphorylation of PI3K-AKT-mTOR signaling. In summarize, our study suggests that SN might be a postnatal angiogenic factor, which was critically involved in retinal pathological neovascularization, but not in embryonic retinal physiological vasculature. Moreover, we identified the receptors and the downstream signaling involved in SN induced retinal angiogenesis.
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.exer.2024.110158 | DOI Listing |
Diabetes Obes Metab
September 2025
Department of Pharmacy, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.
Background: Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is a major complication of diabetes mellitus, characterised by retinal vasculopathy and oxidative stress. Semaglutide, a glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonist (GLP-1RA), has demonstrated cardiovascular benefits but has also been associated with mixed effects on DR progression. This study investigates the potential of semaglutide to attenuate DR progression by ameliorating retinal vasculopathy and oxidative stress in both in vivo and in vitro models.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: To investigate whether quantitative retinal markers, derived from multimodal retinal imaging, are associated with increased risk of mortality among individuals with proliferative diabetic retinopathy (PDR), the most severe form of diabetic retinopathy.
Design: Longitudinal retrospective cohort analysis.
Setting: This study was nested within the AlzEye cohort, which links longitudinal multimodal retinal imaging data routinely collected from a large tertiary ophthalmic institution in London, UK, with nationally held hospital admissions data across England.
Exp Eye Res
September 2025
School of Basic Medicine, Qingdao University, Qingdao, Shandong Province, 266071, China; Department of Ophthalmology, Qingdao Eighth People's Hospital, Qingdao, Shandong Province, 266121, China; Institute of Stem Cell Regeneration Medicine, School of Basic Medicine, Qingdao University, Qingdao, Shan
Mitochondria play a crucial role in energy production and are intimately associated with ocular function. Mitochondrial dysfunction can trigger oxidative stress and inflammation, adversely affecting key ocular structures such as the lacrimal gland, lens, retina, and trabecular meshwork. This dysfunction may compromise the barrier properties of the trabecular meshwork, impeding aqueous humour outflow, elevating intraocular pressure, and resulting in optic nerve damage and primary open-angle glaucoma.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInvest Ophthalmol Vis Sci
September 2025
Department of Ophthalmology, Tangdu Hospital, The Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China.
Purpose: To explore the causal links between antihypertension drugs usage and age-related macular degeneration (AMD).
Methods: Multiple genetic analyses, including summary data-based Mendelian randomization (SMR), traditional MR, and colocalization analysis, were used to explore the causal associations between antihypertension drugs and AMD. Clinical data from the UK Biobank and the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) was applied to refined risk assessment of specific antihypertensive medications in the context of AMD development.
Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci
September 2025
Division of Biomedical Physics, Office of Science and Engineering Laboratories, Center for Devices and Radiological Health, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States.
Purpose: To assess macular choriocapillaris (CC) metrics in healthy volunteers (HVs) without ocular disease and demonstrate CC variations in patients with inherited retinal dystrophies (IRDs) using adaptive optics optical coherence tomography angiography (AO-OCTA).
Methods: Twenty-one HVs and three IRD patients were imaged. Macular variation in 20 HVs in CC metrics (CC density, CC diameter, CC tortuosity, void diameter, void area, lobule count, lobule area, and RPE-CC distance) were assessed by imaging a 28° strip of overlapping AO-OCTA volumes (3° × 3°) from the optic nerve head to the temporal macula.