Role of VEGF-A in endothelial phenotypic shift in human diabetic retinopathy and VEGF-A-induced retinopathy in monkeys

Ophthalmic Research
P HofmanR O Schlingemann

Abstract

The endothelium-specific antigen PAL-E, associated with transport vesicles in non-barrier endothelium, is almost absent from barrier capillaries in the normal brain and retina. We have recently demonstrated that only leaking retinal capillaries in diabetic retinopathy (DR) in humans characteristically express PAL-E. Here we investigated the relation between the expression of the PAL-E antigen and vascular endothelial growth factor-A (VEGF) in human post-mortem eyes of individuals with diabetes mellitus (DM) and in experimental VEGF-induced retinopathy in cynomolgus monkeys. Cryosections were cut of eyes of 41 individuals with and 30 individuals without DM and eyes of 2 cynomolgus monkeys who received 4 injections of 0.5 microg VEGF in the vitreous of one eye and PBS in the other. The sections were stained with antibodies against VEGF, PAL-E and endogenous markers for microvascular leakage. Specific retinal vascular staining for VEGF was only observed in 10 out of the 41 cases with DM. These 10 cases also had marked uniform PAL-E staining and widespread vascular leakage. In contrast, diabetic patients without microvascular leakage and controls were negative for VEGF and PAL-E. Likewise, PAL-E was found only in the leaky retinal ...Continue Reading

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