PMID: 31360618Jul 31, 2019Paper

Immunomodulation as a Neuroprotective Strategy for Glaucoma Treatment

Current Ophthalmology Reports
Mine Bariş, Gülgün Tezel

Abstract

This review aims to highlight the current knowledge about inflammatory mechanisms of neurodegeneration in glaucoma with emphasis on potential immunomodulation strategies. Glaucomatous retina and optic nerve present multiple evidences of inflammatory responses of astroglia, microglia, and blood-born immune cells. Although adaptive/protective responses of resident or systemic immune cells can support neurons and promote tissue repair mechanisms after injurious insults, prolonged inflammatory processes can also produce neurotoxic mediators. Treatments targeting these neurodestructive outcomes may restore immune homeostasis and protect neurons from inflammatory injury. Due to widespread and chronic nature of neuroinflammation in glaucoma, immunomodulation offers a treatment strategy to protect different neuronal compartments of RGCs during the chronic and asynchronous course of neurodegeneration. Uncovering of distinct molecular responses and interactions of different immune cells that determine the neuroinflammatory phenotype and participate in neurodegenerative outcomes will be critical to develop effective strategies for immunomodulation in glaucoma. Neuroinflammation has increasingly been recognized to play an important role in...Continue Reading

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