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Age related macular degeneration (AMD) causes legal blindness worldwide, with few therapeutic targets in early disease and no treatments for 80% of cases. Extracellular deposits, including drusen and subretinal drusenoid deposits (SDD; also called reticular pseudodrusen), disrupt cone and rod photoreceptor functions and strongly confer risk for advanced disease. Due to the differential cholesterol composition of drusen and SDD, lipid transfer and cycling between photoreceptors and support cells are candidate dysregulated pathways leading to deposit formation. The current study explores this hypothesis through a comprehensive lipid compositional analysis of SDD.Methods
Histology and transmission electron microscopy were used to characterize the morphology of SDD"],"journal":["Frontiers in ophthalmology"],"pubmed_title":["Lysolipids are prominent in subretinal drusenoid deposits, a high-risk phenotype in age-related macular degeneration."],"pmcid":["PMC10769005"],"funding_grant_id":["P30 DK020593","U54 DK134302","R01 EY027948","U54 EY032442"],"pubmed_authors":["Van de Plas R","Anderson DMG","Cao D","Migas LG","Tideman L","Curcio CA","Messinger JD","Patterson NH","Ach T","Kotnala A","Schey KL","Tortorella S","Adhikari B"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Lysolipids are prominent in subretinal drusenoid deposits, a high-risk phenotype in age-related macular degeneration.","description":"Introduction
Age related macular degeneration (AMD) causes legal blindness worldwide, with few therapeutic targets in early disease and no treatments for 80% of cases. Extracellular deposits, including drusen and subretinal drusenoid deposits (SDD; also called reticular pseudodrusen), disrupt cone and rod photoreceptor functions and strongly confer risk for advanced disease. Due to the differential cholesterol composition of drusen and SDD, lipid transfer and cycling between photoreceptors and support cells are candidate dysregulated pathways leading to deposit formation. The current study explores this hypothesis through a comprehensive lipid compositional analysis of SDD.Methods
Histology and transmission electron microscopy were used to characterize the morphology of SDD","dates":{"release":"2023-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2023","modification":"2025-04-26T11:56:39.757Z","creation":"2025-04-06T13:48:05.719Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC10769005","cross_references":{"pubmed":["38186747"],"doi":["10.3389/fopht.2023.1258734"]}}