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ReviewPharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland)2023

Sialic Acid Mimetic Microglial Sialic Acid-Binding Immunoglobulin-like Lectin Agonism: Potential to Restore Retinal Homeostasis and Regain Visual Function in Age-Related Macular Degeneration.

Michael J Tolentino, Andrew J Tolentino, Elizabeth M Tolentino, Anitha Krishnan, Mohamed A Genead

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In one paragraph

Review in Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
5citing papers in PubMed
1.7field-weighted citation impact, top 16% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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

5 citing papers in PubMed, 6 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
  2. VEGF in Diabetic Retinopathy and Age-Related Macular Degeneration.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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  5. Multi-omics in exploring the pathophysiology of diabetic retinopathy.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Michael J TolentinoDepartment of Ophthalmology, University of Central Florida College of Medicine, Orlando, FL 32827, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-4914-7356
Andrew J TolentinoDepartment of Biology, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
Elizabeth M TolentinoPratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York, NY 11205, USA.
Anitha KrishnanAviceda Therapeutics, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA.
Mohamed A GeneadAviceda Therapeutics, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA.
Pratt Institute · USUniversity of California, Berkeley · USUniversity of Central Florida · US

Funding

Aviceda Therapeutics No grant numberTolentino Eye Research Foundation No grant numberUniversity of Central Florida No grant number
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Age-related macular degeneration (AMD), a leading cause of visual loss and dysfunction worldwide, is a disease initiated by genetic polymorphisms that impair the negative regulation of complement. Proteomic investigation points to altered glycosylation and loss of Siglec-mediated glyco-immune checkpoint parainflammatory and inflammatory homeostasis as the main determinant for the vision impairing complications of macular degeneration. The effect of altered glycosylation on microglial maintained retinal para-inflammatory homeostasis and eventual recruitment and polarization of peripheral blood monocyte-derived macrophages (PBMDMs) into the retina can explain the phenotypic variability seen in this clinically heterogenous disease. Restoring glyco-immune checkpoint control with a sialic acid mimetic agonist targeting microglial/macrophage Siglecs to regain retinal para-inflammatory and inflammatory homeostasis is a promising therapeutic that could halt the progression of and improve visual function in all stages of macular degeneration.

Indexed as

geographic atrophyglycosylationmacrophagesmacular degenerationmicrogliananoparticlespolysialic acidsialic acidSiglecs

Identifiers

PMID38139861
PMCPMC10747662
OpenAlexW4389894689

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