Abstract
AbstractAcute primary angle closure (APAC) is a disease of ophthalmic urgency; lack of treatment can lead to blindness. Even after adequate treatment for APAC, subsequent elevated acute intraocular pressure induces severe neuronal damage which can result in secondary glaucomatous optic neuropathy (GON). Damage-associated molecular patterns (DAMPs) are released from damaged and dead neuronal cells, which induce secondary inflammatory changes and further tissue damage. Our hypothesis is that histone H2B (H2B), which is one of the DAMPs, is released from damaged cells in the development of GON after APAC treatment. Intravitreal injection of H2B induces neuronal cell death through toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4) expression, following the upregulation of inflammatory cytokine mRNAs and phosphorylation of mitogen activated protein kinases (MAPKs). Knockdown of TLR4 caused a reduction of H2B neurotoxicity in damaged cells through TLR4 signaling. Significantly increased H2B was observed in the vitreous cells of APAC patients. In addition, enhanced H2B protein correlated with decreased ganglion cell analysis and retinal ganglion cell (RGC) layer thinning, which indicates the effect of H2B on RGCs. Our data from clinical and animal studies show the involvement of H2B-TLR4 pathways in the development of GON after APAC treatment providing new insight for the mechanism of RGC degeneration.
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Subject
Cell Biology,Molecular Biology,Pathology and Forensic Medicine
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7 articles.
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