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SUBMITTER: Kaja S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4396426 | biostudies-literature | 2015
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kaja Simon S Shah Anna A AA Haji Shamim A SA Patel Krishna B KB Naumchuk Yuliya Y Zabaneh Alexander A Gerdes Bryan C BC Kunjukunju Nancy N Sabates Nelson R NR Cassell Michael A MA Lord Ron K RK Pikey Kevin P KP Poulose Abraham A Koulen Peter P
Clinical ophthalmology (Auckland, N.Z.) 20150407
The main objective of the study was to quantify serum levels of nicotinamide phosphoribosyltransferase (Nampt/pre-B-Cell colony-enhancing factor 1/visfatin) in subjects with a history of retinal vascular occlusions (RVOs), disease conditions characterized by pronounced ischemia, and metabolic energy deficits. A case-control study of 18 subjects with a history of RVO as well as six healthy volunteers is presented. Serum Nampt levels were quantified using a commercially available enzyme-linked imm ...[more]