Early microvascular and oscillatory potentials changes in human diabetic retina: Amacrine cells and the intraretinal neurovascular crosstalk
| Autor: | Evelyn Longhin, Giulia Midena, Tommaso Torresin, Elisabetta Pilotto, Luisa Frizziero, Edoardo Midena |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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medicine.medical_specialty
Oscillatory potentials Vascular plexuses Article chemistry.chemical_compound Amacrine cells Optical coherence tomography Diabetic retinopathy Ophthalmology medicine Electroretinography Intraretinal crosstalk Morpho-functional correlations Optical coherence tomography angiography Oscillatory poten-tials medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry Retinal General Medicine medicine.disease Neurovascular bundle Pathophysiology oscillatory potentials Crosstalk (biology) chemistry Medicine business |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Clinical Medicine Volume 10 Issue 18 Journal of Clinical Medicine, Vol 10, Iss 4035, p 4035 (2021) |
| Popis: | To analyze the early microvascular retinal changes and oscillatory potentials alterations secondary to diabetic retinal damage, 44 eyes of 22 diabetic patients without and with mild diabetic retinopathy (DR) and 18 eyes of 9 healthy controls were examined. All subjects underwent spectral domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT), OCT angiography (OCTA), and electroretinography of oscillatory potentials (OPs). At OCTA, vessel area density (VAD), vessel length fraction (VLF), and fractal dimension (FD) were significantly reduced in the superficial vascular plexus (SVP), VLF and FD in the intermediate capillary plexus (ICP), and FD in the deep capillary plexus (DCP) in the diabetic group compared to the control group. The amplitude (A) of OP2, OP3, OP4 and the sum of OPs were significantly reduced in the diabetic group versus the controls, and the last two parameters were reduced also in patients without DR versus the controls. Moreover, in the diabetic group, a significant direct correlation was found between the A of OP1, OP2, OP3 and sOP and the VLF and FD in the SVP, while a statistically significant inverse correlation was found between the A of OP3 and OP4 and the VDI in the ICP and DCP. The reduced oscillatory potentials suggest a precocious involvement of amacrine cells in diabetic eyes, independently of DR presence, and their correlation with vascular parameters underlines the relevance of the crosstalk between these cells and vascular components in the pathophysiology of this chronic disease. |
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