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?DJ-1 has been reported to act as aredox-activated chaperone and sensor of oxidative stress participated in a variety of activities in cellular, playing an important role in resisting oxidative stress, regulating signaling pathways and gene transcription, and maintaining mitochondria dynamic balance. DJ -1 is closely related to the occurrence and development of various diseases. Recently, the effect of DJ-1 in eye diseases has drawn more attention, and researchers have found its significant role of resistance to oxidative stress in the pathogenesis of Fuchs endothelial corneal dystrophy ( FECD) and age-related macular degeneration ( AMD ) .This review will state the mechanism of DJ-1 against oxidative stress and its role in the development of eye diseases.
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? The choroidal vasculature provides oxygen and nutrients to the outer retina, and is responsible for maintaining the highly metabolically active photoreceptor cells. The normal structure and function of its vascular system is very important for the retina. So it is more meaningful to observe the choroid morphology for tracking pathological changes in diabetic retinopathy. With the application of the high resolution optical coherence tomography ( OCT ) technology, spectral -domain optical coherence tomography ( SD - OCT ) enhanced depth imaging technology can be used to measure the choroidal thickness quantitatively, which provides a new idea for the diagnosis and treatment of diabetic retinopathy. Therefore, the research and progress of choroidal thickness on diabetic retinopathy by OCT are summarized as follows.
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In this work, the experimental conditions for two-dimensional gel electrophoresis of subretinal fluids (SRF) matrix metalloproteinases were established. The conditions tested included the composition of lysis solution and lysis method, the composition of rehydration solution and isoelectric focusing program (IEF), the composition of equilibration buffer and equilibration process and the composition of incubation solution and incubation methods. The main equipments used were IPGphor isoelectric focusing system from Amersham pharmacia and PROTEAN II xi cell from Bio-Rad, the gel strips used were the 18 cm long, pH 3 - 8 Linear immobiline DryStrips. Among the 9 samples analyzed, 2 were PVR-A, 2 were PVR-C1, 2 were PVR-C2, 2 were PVR-C3 and the remaining one could not be classified definitely. The new 2-DE MMPs method is better than Gelatin SDS-PAGE zymograhpy method, as it is higher in resolution, sensitivity and reproducibility. The experimental results suggested that the four types of MMPs expressed differently at different stages of PVR. Two of the MMPs isomers have same molecular weight (MW) but different in isoelectic points (pI). The four MMPs are determined to be MMP-1, MMP-2, MMP-9 and MMP-9, with MMP-9 has two active forms. In addition, MMP-9 and MMP-1 may be present in PVR-A samples but not in PVR-C samples, whereas MMP-2 is present in PVR-C but not in PVR-A samples. These results revealed the complex profiles of MMPs' expression in PVR. The new method can be applied to test MMPs expression in tissues, cells and other types of samples with a little modification in the protocol, and can be followed by mass spectroscopic analysis of MMPs.