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Genomes and Genes | Ingeborg KlaassenSummaryAffiliation: Academic Medical Center Country: The Netherlands Publications
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Altered expression of genes related to blood-retina barrier disruption in streptozotocin-induced diabetesIngeborg Klaassen
Ocular Angiogenesis Group, Department of Ophthalmology, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Exp Eye Res 89:4-15. 2009....
Differential TGF-{beta} signaling in retinal vascular cells: a role in diabetic retinopathy?Rob J Van Geest
Ocular Angiogenesis Group, Departments of Ophthalmology and Cell Biology and Histology, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 51:1857-65. 2010....
Effect of VEGF-A on expression of profibrotic growth factor and extracellular matrix genes in the retinaEsther J Kuiper
Ocular Angiogenesis Group, Department of Ophthalmology, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 48:4267-76. 2007..The authors hypothesize that VEGF directly contributes to BM thickening in the diabetic retina by inducing expression of profibrotic growth factors and extracellular matrix (ECM) components...
Connective tissue growth factor is necessary for retinal capillary basal lamina thickening in diabetic miceEsther J Kuiper
Department of Cell Biology and Histology, Academic Medical Center, Meibergdreef 15, 1105 AZ Amsterdam, The Netherlands
J Histochem Cytochem 56:785-92. 2008..We conclude that CTGF expression is necessary for diabetes-induced BL thickening and suggest that reduction of CTGF levels may be protective against the development of diabetic retinopathy...
The angio-fibrotic switch of VEGF and CTGF in proliferative diabetic retinopathyEsther J Kuiper
Ocular Angiogenesis Group, Department of Ophthalmology, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
PLoS ONE 3:e2675. 2008..We hypothesize that the balance between levels of pro-angiogenic VEGF and pro-fibrotic CTGF regulates angiogenesis, the angio-fibrotic switch, and the resulting fibrosis and scarring...
Active HIF-1 in the normal human retinaJohn M Hughes
Department of Ophthalmology, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
J Histochem Cytochem 58:247-54. 2010..In human retina, staining of VEGF, GLUT-1, and CAIX was found. Our observations indicate that active HIF-1 signaling occurs constitutively in the normal human and rat retina, suggesting that HIF-1 has a physiological role in the retina...
A shift in the balance of vascular endothelial growth factor and connective tissue growth factor by bevacizumab causes the angiofibrotic switch in proliferative diabetic retinopathyRob J Van Geest
Department of Ophthalmology, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Br J Ophthalmol 96:587-90. 2012..This study investigated whether anti-VEGF agents induce accelerated fibrosis in patients with PDR, as predicted by this model...
A novel co-culture model of the blood-retinal barrier based on primary retinal endothelial cells, pericytes and astrocytesJoanna Wisniewska-Kruk
Ocular Angiogenesis Group, Departments of Ophthalmology and Cell Biology and Histology, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Exp Eye Res 96:181-90. 2012..This in vitro model is the first co-culture model of the BRB that mimicks in vivo VEGF-dependent changes occurring in DME...
CD34 marks angiogenic tip cells in human vascular endothelial cell culturesMartin J Siemerink
Ocular Angiogenesis Group, Department of Ophthalmology and Department of Cell Biology and Histology, University of Amsterdam, Academic Medical Center, PO Box 22660, 1100 DD Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Angiogenesis 15:151-63. 2012..This novel strategy may open alternative avenues for future studies of molecular processes and functions in tip cells in angiogenesis...
Angiogenesis is not impaired in connective tissue growth factor (CTGF) knock-out miceEsther J Kuiper
Ocular Angiogenesis Group, Department of Ophthalmology, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
J Histochem Cytochem 55:1139-47. 2007..Our data show that downregulation of CTGF levels does not affect neovascularization, indicating distinct roles of VEGF and CTGF in angiogenesis and fibrosis in eye conditions...
