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The Role of CTGF in Diabetic Retinopathy

R.J. van Geest, E.J. Kuiper, I. Klaassen,

C.J.F. van Noorden, and R.O. Schlingemann

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

ECM REMODELING AND WOUND HEALING MECHANISMS

IN DIABETIC RETINOPATHY

CTGF STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION

CTGF IN THE EYE

CTGF IN DIABETIC RETINOPATHY

CONCLUSIONS

REFERENCES

Keywords CTGF • VEGF • TGF-b • Preclinical diabetic retinopathy • Proliferative diabetic retinopathy • Basal lamina (thickening) • Basement membrane • ECM (remodeling) • Wound

healing • AGEs • Angiofibrotic switch

INTRODUCTION

Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is a leading cause of ocular morbidity [1]. The pathogenesis of DR is only partly understood. Before development of clinical signs, it involves a complex sequence of events, a phase called preclinical DR (PCDR), finally leading to retinal vascular occlusion and ischemia. This causes the clinical manifestations of the disease: vision-threatening vascular leakage and macular edema, and preretinal neovascularization [2, 3]. The latter condition, proliferative DR (PDR), is essentially a wound healing-like response.

In PCDR, the capillary basal lamina (BL) thickens, along with pericyte and endothelial cell apoptosis, and diffusely increased vascular permeability [2, 4]. In experimental rodent models of DR, retinal VEGF and VEGF-receptor (VEGF-R) mRNA are increased in this stage, suggesting an early role of VEGF in DR, possibly as a result of high glucose levels, advanced glycation end products (AGEs), and/or other factors altered by

From: Ophthalmology Research: Visual Dysfunction in Diabetes

Edited by: J. Tombran-Tink et al. (eds.), DOI 10.1007/978-1-60761-150-9_16 © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2012

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