Long Noncoding RNA-Sox2OT Knockdown Alleviates Diabetes Mellitus-Induced Retinal Ganglion Cell (RGC) injury

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• 作者：Chao-Peng Li ; Shu-Hong Wang ; Wen-Qi Wang…
• 关键词：Diabetic retinopathy ; Retinal ganglion cell (RGC) ; Long noncoding RNA ; NRF2/HO ; 1 signaling
• 刊名：Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：March 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：37
• 期：2
• 页码：361-369
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• 刊物类别：Biomedical and Life Sciences
• 刊物主题：Neurosciences; Cell Biology; Neurobiology;
• 出版者：Springer US
• ISSN：1573-6830
• 卷排序：37

文摘

Retinal ganglion cell (RGC) injury is one of the important pathological features of diabetes-induced retinal neurodegeneration. Increasing attention has been paid to find strategies for protecting against RGC injury. Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) have emerged as the key regulators of many cell functions. Here, we show that Sox2OT expression is significantly down-regulated in the retinas of STZ-induced diabetic mice and in the RGCs upon high glucose or oxidative stress. SOX2OT knockdown protects RGCs against high glucose-induced injury in vitro. Moreover, Sox2OT knockdown plays a neuroprotective role in diabetes-related retinal neurodegeneration in vivo. Sox2OT knockdown could regulate oxidative stress response in RGCs and diabetic mouse retinas. Sox2OT knockdown plays an anti-oxidative role via regulating NRF2/HO-1 signaling activity. Taken together, Sox2OT knockdown may be a therapeutic strategy for the prevention and treatment of diabetes-induced retinal neurodegeneration.