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Targeting Lipid Metabolism for the Treatment of Age-Related Macular Degeneration: Insights from Preclinical Mouse Models

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A comprehensive overview of current AMD mouse models available to researchers that could be used to provide preclinical evidence supporting therapies targeting lipid metabolism for AMD is provided.
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Apolipoprotein E allele-dependent pathogenesis: a model for age-related retinal degeneration

TL;DR: The findings in this model implicate the human apoE E4 allele as a susceptibility gene for AMD and support the hypothesis that common pathogenic mechanisms may underlie AMD and Alzheimer's disease.
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Chronic Cigarette Smoke Causes Oxidative Damage and Apoptosis to Retinal Pigmented Epithelial Cells, in Nrf2-/- Mice

TL;DR: Mice exposed to chronic cigarette smoke develop evidence of oxidative damage with ultrastructural degeneration to the RPE and Bruch membrane, and RPE cell apoptosis, and this model could be useful for studying the mechanism of smoke induced changes during early AMD.
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Multimodal Imaging of Drusenoid Lesions in Rhesus Macaques

TL;DR: Fundus photography, spectral domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT), fundus autofluorescence (FAF), and infrared reflectance (IR) are employed to characterize drusenoid lesions in aged rhesus macaques and provide insight into the absence of advanced AMD in nonhuman primates.
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ANGPTL4 influences the therapeutic response of patients with neovascular age-related macular degeneration by promoting choroidal neovascularization

TL;DR: The findings provide an assay that can help predict the response of patients with nvAMD to anti-VEGF monotherapy and suggest that therapies targeting both ANGPTL4 and VEGF will be a more effective approach for the treatment of this blinding disease.
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Complement Factor H Polymorphism in Age-Related Macular Degeneration

TL;DR: A genome-wide screen for polymorphisms associated with age-related macular degeneration revealed a polymorphism in linkage disequilibrium with the risk allele representing a tyrosine-histidine change at amino acid 402 in the complement factor H gene.
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High-density lipoprotein cholesterol and cardiovascular disease. Four prospective American studies.

TL;DR: A consistent inverse relation of high-density lipoprotein cholesterol levels and coronary heart disease event rates was apparent in BRHS as well as in the four American studies.
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Global prevalence of age-related macular degeneration and disease burden projection for 2020 and 2040: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors did a systematic literature review to identify all population-based studies of age-related macular degeneration published before May, 2013, using retinal photographs and standardised grading classifications.
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A randomized, placebo-controlled, clinical trial of high-dose supplementation with vitamins C and E, beta carotene, and zinc for age-related macular degeneration and vision loss: AREDS report no. 8

TL;DR: People older than 55 years should have dilated eye examinations to determine their risk of developing advanced AMD and those with extensive intermediate size drusen, at least 1 large druse, noncentral geographic atrophy in 1 or both eyes, or advanced AMD or vision loss due to AMD in 1 eye should consider taking a supplement of antioxidants plus zinc.
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Complement factor H variant increases the risk of age-related macular degeneration.

TL;DR: DNA resequencing of the complement factor H gene within this haplotype revealed a common coding variant that significantly increases the risk for AMD with odds ratios between 2.45 and 5.57, which likely explains ∼43% of AMD in older adults.
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