Infection, inflammation and age-related macular degeneration

Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 3-4

  Kalayoglu, Murat V ^a   Miller, Joan W ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE COMPLEMENT PATHWAY C3 C5 CONVERTASE; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C2; INTERFERON;

BACTERIAL INFECTION; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; CHOROID; COMPLEMENT ALTERNATIVE PATHWAY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; EDITORIAL; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; IMMUNOMODULATION; INFLAMMATION; MESANGIUM CELL; PATHOGENESIS; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; SUBRETINAL NEOVASCULARIZATION;

CHLAMYDOPHILA INFECTIONS; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; COMPLEMENT FACTOR H; EYE INFECTIONS, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; MACULAR DEGENERATION; RETINITIS;

EID: 33846650746     PISSN: 14426404     EISSN: 14429071     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-9071.2007.01432.x     Document Type: Editorial

References (10)

1. Kalayoglu MV, Libby P, Byrne GI. Chlamydia pneumoniae as an emerging risk factor in cardiovascular disease. JAMA 2002; 288: 2724-31.
2. Itzhaki RF, Wozniak MA, Appelt DM, Balin BJ. Infiltration of the brain by pathogens causes Alzheimer's disease. Neurobiol Aging 2004; 25: 619-27.
3. Guymer R, Robman L. Chlamydia pneumoniae and age-related macular degeneration: A role in pathogenesis or merely a chance association? Clin Experiment Ophthalmol 2007; 35: 89-93.
4. Haddad S, Chen CA, Santangelo SL, Seddon JM. The genetics of age-related macular degeneration: A review of progress to date. Surv Ophthalmol 2006; 51: 316-63.
5. Gold B, Merriam JE, Zernant J et al. Variation in factor B (BF) and complement component 2 (C2) genes is associated with age-related macular degeneration. Nat Genet 2006; 38: 458-62.
6. Kalayoglu MV, Bula D, Arroyo J, Gragoudas ES, D'Amico D, Miller JW. Identification of Chlamydia pneumoniae within human choroidal neovascular membranes secondary to age-related macular degeneration. Graefes Arch Clin Exp Ophthalmol 2005; 243: 1080-90.
7. Megran DW, Stiver HG, Bowie WR. Complement activation and stimulation of chemotaxis by Chlamydia trachomatis. Infect Immun 1985; 49: 670-3.
8. Timmerman JJ, Beersma MF, van Gijlswijk-Janssen DJ, van Es LA, van der Woude FJ, Daha MR. Differential effects of cytomegalovirus infection on complement synthesis by human mesangial cells. Clin Exp Immunol 1997; 109: 518-25.
9. Nelson DE, Virok DP, Wood H et al. Chlamydial IFN-gamma immune evasion is linked to host infection tropism. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2005; 102: 10658-63.
10. Cannon CP, Braunwald E, McCabe CH et al. Antibiotic treatment of Chlamydia pneumoniae after acute coronary syndrome. N Engl J Med 2005; 352: 1646-54.