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SUBMITTER: Lei H
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3432438 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lei Hetian H Rheaume Marc-Andre MA Cui Jing J Mukai Shizuo S Maberley David D Samad Arif A Matsubara Joanne J Kazlauskas Andrius A
The American journal of pathology 20120901 3
Proliferative vitreoretinopathy (PVR) is a blinding disease associated with rhegmatogenous retinal detachment, for which there is no satisfactory treatment. Surgery helps in many cases, but, to our knowledge, there are no pharmacological approaches to reduce PVR risk. We report that suppressing expression of p53 was a required event in two assays of PVR (namely, platelet-derived growth factor receptor α-mediated contraction of cells in a collagen gel and retinal detachment in an animal model of ...[more]