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JOURNAL OF NEUROIMMUNOLOGY
Volume 163, Issue 1-2, Pages 102-109Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jneuroim.2005.03.004
Keywords
autoimmune; autoreactive T cell; recurrent uveitis
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- NEI NIH HHS [R01 EY014366, R01 EY014599, EY014-366, R01 EY012974, EY12974, EY14599] Funding Source: Medline
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Recurrent uveitis is a common cause of vision blindness. Using a rat model of chronic recurrent uveitis, we examined the relationship between clinical expression, pathological changes, and the heterogeneity of the disease. Chronic recurrent uveitis was induced by adoptive transfer of interphotoreceptor retinoid-binding protein (IRBP)-specific T cells in a total of more than 60 Lewis rats. In about 75% of cases recurrent uveitis was pathologically a chronic and progressive disease. The major pathological changes included the gradual loss of photoreceptor cells. However, disease progression did not always parallel the severity of ocular inflammation and clinical recurrent disease, with about a quarter showing no pathological damage in the eye. (C) 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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