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Silicone oil-induced ocular hypertension and glaucomatous neurodegeneration in mouse

  1. Jie Zhang
  2. Liang Li
  3. Haoliang Huang
  4. Fang Fang
  5. Hannah C Webber
  6. Pei Zhuang
  7. Liang Liu
  8. Roopa Dalal
  9. Peter H Tang
  10. Vinit B Mahajan
  11. Yang Sun
  12. Shaohua Li
  13. Mingchang Zhang
  14. Jeffrey L Goldberg
  15. Yang Hu  Is a corresponding author
  1. Stanford University School of Medicine, United States
  2. Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
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Cite this article as: eLife 2019;8:e45881 doi: 10.7554/eLife.45881

Abstract

Understanding the molecular mechanism of glaucoma and development of neuroprotectants are significantly hindered by the lack of a reliable animal model that accurately recapitulates human glaucoma. Here we sought to develop a mouse model for the secondary glaucoma that is often observed in humans after silicone oil (SO) blocks the pupil or migrates into the anterior chamber following vitreoretinal surgery. We observed significant intraocular pressure (IOP) elevation after intracameral injection of SO, and that SO removal allows IOP to return quickly to normal. This simple, inducible and reversible mouse ocular hypertension model shows dynamic changes of visual function that correlate with progressive RGC loss and axon degeneration. It may be applicable with only minor modifications to a range of animal species in which it will generate stable, robust IOP elevation and significant neurodegeneration that will facilitate selection of neuroprotectants and investigating the pathogenesis of ocular hypertension-induced glaucoma.

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  1. Jie Zhang

    Department of Ophthalmology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, United States
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  2. Liang Li

    Department of Ophthalmology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, United States
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  3. Haoliang Huang

    Department of Ophthalmology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, United States
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  4. Fang Fang

    Department of Ophthalmology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, United States
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  5. Hannah C Webber

    Department of Ophthalmology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, United States
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  6. Pei Zhuang

    Department of Ophthalmology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, United States
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  7. Liang Liu

    Department of Ophthalmology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, United States
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  8. Roopa Dalal

    Department of Ophthalmology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, United States
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  9. Peter H Tang

    Department of Ophthalmology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, United States
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  10. Vinit B Mahajan

    Department of Ophthalmology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, United States
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  11. Yang Sun

    Department of Ophthalmology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, United States
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  12. Shaohua Li

    Department of Ophthalmology, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
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  13. Mingchang Zhang

    Department of Ophthalmology, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
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  14. Jeffrey L Goldberg

    Department of Ophthalmology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, United States
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  15. Yang Hu

    Department of Ophthalmology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, United States
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    huyang@stanford.edu
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Funding

National Eye Institute (EY024932)

  • Yang Hu

National Eye Institute (EY023295)

  • Yang Hu

National Eye Institute (EY028106)

  • Yang Hu

The funders had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.

Ethics

Animal experimentation: This study was performed in strict accordance with the recommendations in the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals of the National Institutes of Health. All of the animals were handled according to approved institutional animal care and use committee (IACUC) protocols (#32093) of the Stanford University.

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  1. Jeremy Nathans, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, United States

Publication history

  1. Received: February 8, 2019
  2. Accepted: May 14, 2019
  3. Accepted Manuscript published: May 15, 2019 (version 1)
  4. Version of Record published: May 23, 2019 (version 2)

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© 2019, Zhang et al.

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