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Published on: January 25, 2019
[Research progress on signaling pathways related to drug research in proliferative vitreoretinopathy]
1Department of Ophthalmology, Tianjin Medical University General Hospital, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Ocular Trauma, Tianjin 300052, China.
Abstract:
Proliferative vitreoretinopathy (PVR) is an avascular fibroproliferative disease that occurs in the retina. The main pathological changes are the proliferation and traction of retinal pigment epithelial cells (RPE) and glial cells on the vitreous and retina. Basic research has confirmed that the formation of PVR is related to multiple signaling pathways, including NK-κB signaling pathway, MAPK and its downstream signaling pathways, JAK/STAT signaling pathway, PI3K/Akt signaling pathway, thrombin and its receptor pathway, TGF-β and downstream signaling pathway, North signaling pathway and Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway, etc. This review summarizes the research progress of the main signaling pathways in the formation mechanism of PVR, and provides the basis and support for the research of PVR drug therapy.

