April 2014
Volume 55, Issue 13
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ARVO Annual Meeting Abstract  |   April 2014
Suppression of Interferon-gamma protects retinal ischemia-induced neuron death
Author Affiliations & Notes
  • Kin-Sang Cho
    Schepens Eye Research Institute, Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
  • T H Khanh Vu
    Schepens Eye Research Institute, Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
    Ophthalmology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands
  • Djoeke Doesburg
    Schepens Eye Research Institute, Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
    Ophthalmology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands
  • Dongfeng Feng Chen
    Schepens Eye Research Institute, Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
    Boston VA Healthcare System, Boston, MA
  • Footnotes
    Commercial Relationships Kin-Sang Cho, None; T H Khanh Vu, None; Djoeke Doesburg, None; Dongfeng Chen, None
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Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science April 2014, Vol.55, 1897. doi:
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      Kin-Sang Cho, T H Khanh Vu, Djoeke Doesburg, Dongfeng Feng Chen; Suppression of Interferon-gamma protects retinal ischemia-induced neuron death. Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 2014;55(13):1897.

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Abstract
 
Purpose
 

Transient retinal ischemic-reperfusion injury is a popular mouse model to be used for the study of mechanisms of ischemia-induced neuron death. Our recent study showed that retinal ischemia induced interferon gamma (IFN-γ), suggesting that IFN-γ may contribute to the death of retinal neurons. We thus propose to test if suppression of IFN-γ protects retinal ischemia-induced neuron death.

 
Methods
 

Acute retinal ischemia was induced in C57BL6/J mice. Briefly, the anterior chamber of right eye was cannulated with a glass needle connected to a sterile saline bag via plastic tubing. The intraocular pressure was elevated to 110 mmHg for 60 min by raising the saline bag to 120 cm high. In sham-operated group, same procedure of cannulation was performed without infusing saline into the anterior chamber. Two μg of anti-IFN-γ IgG or vehicle control solution (saline or IgG isotype) was administrated to the vitreous cavity at day 3, 7, 10 and 14 post-induction of retinal ischemia. At 3 weeks post injury, electroretinographic (ERG) response was recorded in mice. The mice were sacrificed at 4 weeks post injury. Whole-mount retinas were collected and incubated with Tuj1 antibody which recognizes a marker for retinal ganglion cells (RGC). Tuj1+ RGC were visualized by incubating with Cy3 conjugated secondary antibody, and Tuj1+ RGC were quantified. The percentage of RGC loss was calculated by comparing with that in normal retina. To determine the T cell-mediated responses potentially involved in the ischemia induced pathological process, cells from cervical lymph nodes of the mice were stimulated with phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate and ionomycin for 4 hr in culture and analyzed by FACS.

 
Results
 

Significantly less number of Tuj1+ RGC loss was observed in the ischemic retina that received anti-IFN-γ treatments than that were treated with saline or IgG isotype (p<0.01). However, we did not observe significant improvement of ERG response in the ischemic retina that were treated with anti-IFN-γ if compared with saline or IgG isotype-treated groups, of which all have shown significant reduction of ERG a- and b-wave amplitudes comparing to the normal retina. Nor did administration of anti-IFN-γ altered the population of CD4+IFN-γ+ cells in the cervical lymph node as compared to the saline treated group

 
Conclusions
 

Suppression of IFN-γ by administration of neutralizing IFN-γ antibody improves RGC survival following retinal ischemia.

 
Keywords: 572 ischemia • 557 inflammation • 531 ganglion cells  
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