2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Treatment of diabetic macular edema by VEGF-SiRNA using ligand-inducible system
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26670752
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Research Field |
Ophthalmology
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| Research Institution | Shinshu University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
IESATO Yasuhiro 信州大学, 医学部, 助教 (00708357)
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| Research Collaborator |
IMAI Akira 信州大学, 大学院医学系研究科, 大学院生
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| Project Period (FY) |
2014-04-01 – 2016-03-31
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| Keywords | 糖尿病黄斑浮腫 / VEGF / 遺伝子改変マウス / RNA干渉 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
The aim of the present study was to develop a new method to suppress overexpression of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) using SiRNA to treat experimentally induced diabetic retinopathy-like changes. To evaluate the effects of the treatment, we established a method to obtain high resolution images of fluorescein angiography and optical coherence tomography. To induce gene transduction using retroviral vector, we also developed a method to deliver laser burn in mouse retinas to induce cell proliferation that is necessary for gene transduction using this viral vector.
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| Free Research Field |
眼科学
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