Abstract:
PURPOSE:Peripheral and limbal corneal stromal cells (PLCSCs), which contain keratocytes, have a complex phenotype. Knowledge of keratocyte cell properties, function, and origin is limited. Evidence available thus far has suggested both mesenchymal stromal and hematopoietic characteristics. Multipotent mesenchymal stromal cells (MSCs) are found in an increasing number of tissues and are the subject of considerable interest and investigation in the disciplines of tissue engineering, immunology, gene therapy, and oncology. METHODS:Isolated PLCSCs were characterized by markers aldehyde dehydrogenase and keratocan, cultured, and analyzed against a set of criteria for the identification of MSCs developed by the International Society of Cellular Therapy (ISCT). PLCSCs were directly compared to fetal liver MSCs (flMSCs). Additional cell surface markers were also used to quantify differentiation, which was also performed on both cell types. RESULTS:PLCSCs were found to be plastic adherent, displayed the correct profile and proportions of CSMs, and demonstrated trilineage potential in accordance with the ISCT guidelines. Furthermore, PLCSCs displayed a high degree of similarity to flMSCs and this likeness extended into the non-ISCT MSC cell surface markers and trilineage differentiation, which were often but not always comparable. CONCLUSIONS:Herein we report a novel observation that PLCSCs conform to all the ISCT criteria and are therefore MSCs. Furthermore, this study has identified the limbal stroma as yet another MSC niche and presents a new perspective on the role of the PLCSC.
journal_name
Invest Ophthalmol Vis Scijournal_title
Investigative ophthalmology & visual scienceauthors
Branch MJ,Hashmani K,Dhillon P,Jones DR,Dua HS,Hopkinson Adoi
10.1167/iovs.11-8673subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2012-08-03 00:00:00pages
5109-16issue
9eissn
0146-0404issn
1552-5783pii
iovs.11-8673journal_volume
53pub_type
杂志文章abstract:Purpose:To investigate the molecular mechanisms of the antiangiogenic activity of UPARANT, an antagonist of the urokinase-type plasminogen activator receptor (uPAR), on primary human retinal endothelial cells (HREC) as a model of in vitro angiogenesis. Methods:The antiangiogenic activity of UPARANT was evaluated on en...
journal_title:Investigative ophthalmology & visual science
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1167/iovs.16-19909
更新日期:2016-10-01 00:00:00
abstract:PURPOSE:To engineer a knockin mouse model that can be used to monitor the effects of treatments on degradation and mislocalization of proline-to-histidine change at codon 23 (P23H) rhodopsin, a common cause of autosomal dominant retinitis pigmentosa (ADRP). The goal was to introduce a gene that expressed rhodopsin at l...
journal_title:Investigative ophthalmology & visual science
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1167/iovs.11-8654
更新日期:2011-12-28 00:00:00
abstract:PURPOSE:Transforming growth factor beta-1 (TGF beta-1) can modulate inflammation. Endotoxin-induced uveitis (EIU) is characterized by acute ocular inflammation related to the release of cytokines, including interleukin (IL)-6. The authors investigated the effect of TGF beta-1 on EIU in mice. METHODS:Three independent ...
journal_title:Investigative ophthalmology & visual science
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:1997-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:PURPOSE:Recent studies have shown that a decrease of regulatory T (Treg) cells may contribute to the activity of acute anterior uveitis (AAU) and ankylosing spondylitis (AS). A number of immunogenetic factors including IL2RA, miR-27a, miR-182, and FoxO1 are associated with Treg cell function. In this study, we investig...
journal_title:Investigative ophthalmology & visual science
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1167/iovs.14-15460
更新日期:2014-11-20 00:00:00
abstract:PURPOSE:The purpose of this study was to evaluate the performance of optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) in visualizing laser-induced choroidal neovascularization (CNV) in the rodent retina. METHODS:Choroidal neovascularization was induced via laser photocoagulation in 2 male Brown Norway rats and 2 male C...
journal_title:Investigative ophthalmology & visual science
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1167/iovs.15-18946
更新日期:2016-07-01 00:00:00
abstract:PURPOSE:The aim of this study was to investigate the repeatability of manual measurements of choroidal thickness in healthy subjects imaged on spectral domain optical coherence tomography (OCT) using the enhanced depth imaging (EDI) technique. METHODS:Fifty consecutive, healthy, young, adult volunteers with no known e...
journal_title:Investigative ophthalmology & visual science
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1167/iovs.10-6024
更新日期:2011-04-08 00:00:00
abstract::A recent hypothesis for the cellular mechanism of fluid secretion by lacrimal acini has been based, in part, on the results of subcellular fractionation analyses of lacrimal gland fragments which had been incubated for a brief period in vitro. An important assumption in those studies was that the ion transporters and ...
journal_title:Investigative ophthalmology & visual science
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:1990-11-01 00:00:00
abstract::Prostaglandins and other eicosanoids in the trabecular meshwork may play important physiological and pharmacological roles in the aqueous outflow pathway. In the present studies, we employed [14C]-arachidonic acid to explore potentially important pathways for the production of eicosanoids in cultured human trabecular ...
journal_title:Investigative ophthalmology & visual science
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:1988-11-01 00:00:00
abstract::The life history of melanin and lipofuscin granules of human retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) was studied in 30 human eyes spanning nine decades of life. Autofluorescent granules in the cytoplasm of eye over 30 years of age were shown, ultrastructurally and through lipid solvent extraction, to be lipofuscin granules. ...
journal_title:Investigative ophthalmology & visual science
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:1978-07-01 00:00:00
abstract::A method of analysing fluorescein angiograms that yields a parameter of intraocular blood flow designated as the fluorescein appearance rate is presented. The appearance rate was decreased in those eyes in which intraocular pressure (Pi) was found to be increased. The appearance rate was also decreased in the two case...
journal_title:Investigative ophthalmology & visual science
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:1983-03-01 00:00:00
abstract::The uveal absorption of aqueous humor at two different intraocular pressures was measured in rhesus monkeys by sampling vortex vein blood during anterior chamber perfusion of Ringer's solution containing both fluorescein and 125I albumin. At 20 mm. Hg, an excess of fluorescein equivalent in amount to 0.45 microliter/m...
journal_title:Investigative ophthalmology & visual science
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:1977-11-01 00:00:00
abstract::Using a freezing point depression method, requiring volumes of only 200 nanoliters, the osmolalities of 324 tear samples collected at consecutive 10-minute intervals throughout 8.5-hour periods from each of six healthy young adults were measured. The population mean was found to be 318 mOsm/kg, with a population media...
journal_title:Investigative ophthalmology & visual science
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:1983-12-01 00:00:00
abstract:PURPOSE:The betaB2-crystallin gene (Crybb2) is expressed at an increasing level in the postnatal lens cortex. It has been assumed that the gene functions as structural protein, although this has not been directly tested. Here the in vivo functions of betaB2-crystallin are examined via the generation of mice with a targ...
journal_title:Investigative ophthalmology & visual science
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1167/iovs.08-2179
更新日期:2008-12-01 00:00:00
abstract:PURPOSE:The loss of attentional visual field (AVF) has been linked to poor mobility and car crashes. We investigated the risk factors associated with a decrease in AVF over time among participants in the Salisbury Eye Evaluation Driving Study (SEEDS). METHODS:In a longitudinal cohort of 968 individuals ages 67 to 87, ...
journal_title:Investigative ophthalmology & visual science
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1167/iovs.11-8874
更新日期:2013-03-13 00:00:00
abstract:PURPOSE:Macular corneal dystrophy (MCD) is a rare corneal dystrophy that is characterized by abnormal deposits in the corneal stroma, keratocytes, Descemet's membrane, and endothelium, accompanied by progressive clouding. It has been classified into three immunophenotypes--MCD types I, IA, and II--according to the seru...
journal_title:Investigative ophthalmology & visual science
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:2002-02-01 00:00:00
abstract:PURPOSE:Point and null mutations in interphotoreceptor retinoid-binding protein (IRBP) cause retinal dystrophy in affected patients and IRBP-deficient mice with unknown mechanism. This study investigated whether IRBP protects cells from damages induced by all-trans-retinal (atRAL), which was increased in the Irbp(-/-) ...
journal_title:Investigative ophthalmology & visual science
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1167/iovs.15-18551
更新日期:2016-04-01 00:00:00
abstract::One hypothesized cause of low-tension glaucoma is chronic or intermittent ischemia of the optic nerve. Since the optic nerve and brain are both parts of the central nervous system and share a common blood supply, the authors wondered if patients with low-tension glaucoma might also have clinical or radiographic eviden...
journal_title:Investigative ophthalmology & visual science
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:1985-08-01 00:00:00
abstract::Inoculation of the neurotropic coronavirus mouse hepatitis virus strain JHM intravitreally or into the anterior chamber causes acute infection of the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) and neural retina. Weeks later, many retinas have foci of moderate to severe atrophy. The effect of coronavirus infection (after intravi...
journal_title:Investigative ophthalmology & visual science
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:1992-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:PURPOSE:Intraocular pressure (IOP) is dynamic and can be influenced by the use of tonometers. The authors developed a technique to implant a telemetric pressure transducer to measure IOP continuously in unrestrained rabbits. METHODS:A commercial telemetric pressure transducer was implanted subcutaneously on the dorsal...
journal_title:Investigative ophthalmology & visual science
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:1996-05-01 00:00:00
abstract:PURPOSE:The influence of the inner wall of Schlemm's canal on aqueous outflow facility remains poorly understood. We examined the relationship between inner wall pore characteristics and outflow facility in living primate eyes in which facility had been pharmacologically increased by ethacrynic acid (ECA) infusion and ...
journal_title:Investigative ophthalmology & visual science
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:1999-06-01 00:00:00
abstract:PURPOSE:The RAS association domain family 1 (RASSF1) gene is a tumor-suppressor gene located on chromosome 3p21.3. The alternative transcript (RASSF1a) has been shown to be inactivated by hypermethylation in several human malignancies, including breast, prostate, and lung cancer, and in cutaneous melanoma. The purpose ...
journal_title:Investigative ophthalmology & visual science
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1167/iovs.06-0781
更新日期:2007-02-01 00:00:00
abstract::The sequential electrophysiologic and pathologic changes in the retina in ceroid-lipofuscinosis were recorded in a time-course study in the ovine model. Over a relatively short period in the course of the disease, a severe reduction in both rod and cone b-wave amplitudes developed with rod b-wave changes preceeding th...
journal_title:Investigative ophthalmology & visual science
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:1984-03-01 00:00:00
abstract:PURPOSE:To investigate the effect of nerve growth factor (NGF) in combination with docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) on corneal nerve regeneration in a rabbit model after PRK and correlate the findings with functional tear test. METHODS:Unilateral PRK was performed on 21 New Zealand albino rabbits. Three groups, each consist...
journal_title:Investigative ophthalmology & visual science
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1167/iovs.05-0241
更新日期:2005-09-01 00:00:00
abstract:PURPOSE:Mutations in PITX2 are associated with Axenfeld-Rieger syndrome (ARS), which involves ocular, dental, and umbilical abnormalities. Identification of cis-regulatory elements of PITX2 is important to better understand the mechanisms of disease. METHODS:Conserved noncoding elements surrounding PITX2/pitx2 were id...
journal_title:Investigative ophthalmology & visual science
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1167/iovs.10-6060
更新日期:2011-03-18 00:00:00
abstract::The predominant risk factor for the progression of glaucoma is an increase in IOP, mediated via a reduction in aqueous outflow through the conventional (trabecular meshwork and Schlemm's canal) outflow pathway. Current IOP lowering pharmacological strategies target the uveoscleral (nonconventional) outflow pathway or ...
journal_title:Investigative ophthalmology & visual science
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1167/iovs.14-14515
更新日期:2014-08-14 00:00:00
abstract:PURPOSE:The purpose of the present study was to examine the roles of signaling pathways potentially activated by TGFbeta (i.e., Smad and p38 mitogen-activated kinase [MAPK]) in regulation of cell migration and proliferation of healing mouse corneal epithelium. METHODS:Activation of Smads or p38MAPK was evaluated by im...
journal_title:Investigative ophthalmology & visual science
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1167/iovs.03-0700
更新日期:2004-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:PURPOSE:To compare self-assessed driving habits and skills of licensed drivers with central visual loss who use bioptic telescopes to those of age-matched normally sighted drivers, and to examine the association between bioptic drivers' impressions of the quality of their driving and ratings by a "backseat" evaluator. ...
journal_title:Investigative ophthalmology & visual science
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1167/iovs.13-13520
更新日期:2014-01-15 00:00:00
abstract:PURPOSE:Ca(2+) is a major regulator of cell function. In the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE), intracellular free Ca(2+) concentration ([Ca(2+)](i)) is essential for the maintenance of normal retinal function. Therefore, accurate control of [Ca(2+)](i) is vital in these cells. Because Ca(2+) is permanently extruded fro...
journal_title:Investigative ophthalmology & visual science
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1167/iovs.07-0412
更新日期:2007-12-01 00:00:00
abstract:Purpose:Dry eye disease (DED) is a multifactorial disease associated with ocular surface inflammation. Toll-like receptors (TLRs) are integral in the initiation of inflammatory signaling. Therefore, we evaluated the effect of TLR-deficiency on dry eye-related ocular surface damage and inflammation using a mouse model o...
journal_title:Investigative ophthalmology & visual science
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1167/iovs.17-23397
更新日期:2018-06-01 00:00:00
abstract:PURPOSE:To determine a time window in the rhodopsin knockout (Rho(-/-)) mouse during which retinal function is already sufficiently developed but cone degeneration is not yet substantial, thus representing an all-cone retina. METHODS:Electroretinograms (ERGs) were obtained from 14 homozygous Rho(-/-) mice and eight C5...
journal_title:Investigative ophthalmology & visual science
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:2001-02-01 00:00:00