Pigment epithelia of the eye: Cell-type conversion in regeneration and disease

EN Grigoryan - Life, 2022 - mdpi.com
Pigment epithelial cells (PECs) of the retina (RPE), ciliary body, and iris (IPE) are capable of
altering their phenotype. The main pathway of phenotypic switching of eye PECs in …

Cell Sources for Retinal Regeneration: Implication for Data Translation in Biomedicine of the Eye

EN Grigoryan - Cells, 2022 - mdpi.com
The main degenerative diseases of the retina include macular degeneration, proliferative
vitreoretinopathy, retinitis pigmentosa, and glaucoma. Novel approaches for treating retinal …

Notch1 signaling in keratocytes maintains corneal transparency by suppressing VEGF expression

S Biswas, M Shafiquzzaman, G Yu, P Li, Q Yu, P Zhao… - Stem Cell Reports, 2022 - cell.com
The cornea fends off chemicals, dirt, and infectious particles and provides most of the eye's
focusing power. Corneal transparency is of paramount importance to normal vision, yet how …

[HTML][HTML] Step-by-step preparation of mouse eye sections for routine histology, immunofluorescence, and RNA in situ hybridization multiplexing

J Pang, N Thomas, D Tsuchiya, T Parmely, D Yan… - STAR protocols, 2021 - Elsevier
It can be challenging to maintain tissue integrity using established histology protocols. Here,
we describe a protocol composed of Hartman's fixation, window technique, microwave …

Atonal homolog 7 (ATOH7) confers neuroprotection for photoreceptor cells in glaucoma via inhibition of the notch pathway

Y Yin, S Wu, L Niu, S Huang - Journal of Neurochemistry, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Single‐cell RNA sequencing (scRNA‐seq) technologies enable the profiling and analysis of
the transcriptomes of single cells and hold promise for clarifying gene mechanisms at single …

[HTML][HTML] The development and the genetic diseases of the ciliary body

B Li, T Xie, S Nawy, Y Shen - Cell Insight, 2024 - Elsevier
The ciliary body, located at the junction of the choroid and iris, is crucial in the development
of the embryonic eye. Notch2 signalling, Wnt signalling, transforming growth factor β (TGF-β) …

A freeze-substitution approach with solvent-based glyoxal fixative to prevent distortion of ocular structures

J Pang, X Zhao, F Deng, D Tsuchiya… - Journal of …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Investigating the function of delicate mammalian eyes often requires chemical fixation,
histological sectioning, immunohistochemistry (IHC) and in situ hybridization (ISH). One of …

Notch-dependent Abl signaling regulates cell motility during ommatidial rotation in Drosophila

Y Koca, LT Vuong, J Singh, E Giniger, M Mlodzik - Cell reports, 2022 - cell.com
A collective cell motility event that occurs during Drosophila eye development, ommatidial
rotation (OR), serves as a paradigm for signaling-pathway-regulated directed movement of …

[PDF][PDF] Next Generation Sequencing bei kongenitalen Augenfehlbildungen: Identifizierung genetischer Ursachen und Vergleich unterschiedlicher panelbasierter …

L Neuhann - 2024 - edoc.ub.uni-muenchen.de
Zusammenfassung Kongenitale Augenfehlbildungen wie das Mikrophthalmie-Anophthalmie-
Kolobom-Spektrum (MAC), Vorderabschnittsdysgenesien (ASD), das kongenitale Glaukom …

Upregulated NOTCH Signaling in the Lens of Patients With Pseudoexfoliation Syndrome Compared With Pseudoexfoliation Glaucoma Suggests Protective Role

ZS Pradhan, S Dixit, L Krishna, R Shetty… - Journal of …, 2022 - journals.lww.com
Purpose: NOTCH signaling has neuroprotective functions and altered NOTCH signaling is
associated with neurodegenerative diseases with protein aggregation such as Alzheimer …