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ReviewCold Spring Harbor perspectives in medicine2024

Immunology of Retinitis Pigmentosa and Gene Therapy-Associated Uveitis.

Paul Yang, Debarshi Mustafi, Kathryn L Pepple

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Review in Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in medicine, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.

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16citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

16 citing papers in PubMed, 18 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. Ciliary Defects in Inherited Retinal Diseases.Advanced genetics (Hoboken, N.J.) · 2026
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  5. Single-Cell Transcriptomics onBiomedicines · 2025
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  12. Clearing the AIR: AAmerican journal of ophthalmology case reports · 2025
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  15. An immunological window to the brain.Nature cardiovascular research · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Paul YangCasey Eye Institute, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregan 97239, USA yangp@ohsu.edu kpepple@uw.edu.
Debarshi MustafiDepartment of Ophthalmology, Roger and Karalis Johnson Retina Center, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98109, USA.
Kathryn L PeppleDepartment of Ophthalmology, Roger and Karalis Johnson Retina Center, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98109, USA yangp@ohsu.edu kpepple@uw.edu.
Oregon Health & Science University · USSeattle Children's Hospital · USUniversity of Washington · US

Funding

Vision Research CoreP30EY001730 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI Jay Neitz · 1985 to 2026
$23.5M
Proteomics CoreP30EY010572 · NEI · OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY · PI John Peter Campbell · 1995 to 2026
$19.4M
Immune mechanisms of post-infectious uveitisR01EY030431 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI PEPPLE, KATHRYN · 2019 to 2023
$2.2M
The role of non-coding variants in Usher diseaseK08EY033789 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI Debarshi Mustafi · 2023 to 2026
$921k
NEI NIH HHS K08 EY033789NEI NIH HHS P30 EY001730NEI NIH HHS P30 EY010572NEI NIH HHS R01 EY030431
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The underlying immune state of inherited retinal degenerations (IRDs) and retinitis pigmentosa (RP) has been an emerging area of interest, wherein the consequences have never been greater given the widespread recognition of gene therapy-associated uveitis (GTU) in gene therapy clinical trials. Whereas some evidence suggests that the adaptive immune system may play a role, the majority of studies indicate that the innate immune system is likely the primary driver of neuroinflammation in RP. During retinal degeneration, discrete mechanisms activate resident microglia and promote infiltrating macrophages that can either be protective or detrimental to photoreceptor cell death. This persistent stimulation of innate immunity, overlaid by the introduction of viral antigens as part of gene therapy, has the potential to trigger a complex microglia/macrophage-driven proinflammatory state. A better understanding of the immune pathophysiology in IRD and GTU will be necessary to improve the success of developing novel treatments for IRDs.

Indexed as

Retinal DegenerationRetinitis PigmentosaUveitisGenetic TherapyHumansMacrophages

Identifiers

PMID37037600
PMCPMC10562523
OpenAlexW4362737348

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