Journal of Ophthalmology

Lymphatic and Blood Vessels in the Eye: Physiology, Health, and Disease


Publishing date
15 Feb 2012
Status
Published
Submission deadline
15 Aug 2011

Lead Editor

1Section of Ophthalmology, Department of Medicine, Fukuoka Dental College, Fukuoka 814-0193, Japan

2Department of Ophthalmology, Children's Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA

3Department of Ophthalmology, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Schwabachanlage 6, 91054 Erlangen, Germany

4Department of Ophthalmology, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan


Lymphatic and Blood Vessels in the Eye: Physiology, Health, and Disease

Description

Lymphatic and blood vessels are distributed in the whole body and play important roles for the homeostasis including immunity. Since the 1970s, blood vessels have been known to grow in the physiological and pathological conditions (angiogenesis). Recent clinical use of VEGF inhibitors shows that VEGF and angiogenesis could be major players in various ocular diseases. On the other hand, lymphangiogenesis in the eye has been unclear due to lack of specific markers for lymphatics. Recent advances in molecular biology and medicine have introduced lymphatic-related markers and cytokines to study the existence or roles of lymphatic vessel in the eye and the mechanisms underlying their pathology. Knowledge and understanding of these conditions have led to the development of animal models, successful therapies, and novel tools to characterize these clinical conditions and provide better care to patients. We invite investigators to contribute original research articles as well as review articles that will stimulate the continuing efforts to understand the molecular pathology in ocular physiology, health, and diseases related to lymphatic and blood vessel, the development of strategies to treat these conditions, and the evaluation of outcomes. We are particularly interested in articles describing the new insights of the contribution of lymph- or angiogenesis for various ocular diseases, advances in lymphatic and blood vessels-related diseases in the eye, new insights into corneal transplantation, ocular immune diseases, or vascular diseases using animal models, new concepts in the treatment of ocular vascular diseases, small molecules, SiRNA, stem cells, and viral and nonviral gene therapy strategies. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

  • Recent developments of lymph and angiogenesis in corneal transplantation research
  • Mechanism of lymph and blood vessels development in the eye
  • Advances in imaging techniques in ocular vascular diseases
  • Mechanism of vascular inflammation in ocular diseases
  • Mechanism of angiogenesis in diabetic retinopathy or age-related macular degeneration beyond VEGF
  • New insights of ocular lymphatics
  • Recent advances in molecular targeting drug for vascular diseases in the eye

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