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SUBMITTER: Okunuki Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6525481 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Okunuki Yoko Y Mukai Ryo R Nakao Takeshi T Tabor Steven J SJ Butovsky Oleg O Dana Reza R Ksander Bruce R BR Connor Kip M KM
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20190425 20
Autoimmune uveitis is a sight-threatening ocular inflammatory condition in which the retina and uveal tissues become a target of autoreactive immune cells. While microglia have been studied extensively in autoimmune uveitis, their exact function remains uncertain. The objective of the current study was to determine whether resident microglia are necessary and sufficient to initiate and amplify retinal inflammation in autoimmune uveitis. In this study, we clearly demonstrate that microglia are es ...[more]