title: Chronic recurrent autoimmune uveitis with progressive photoreceptor damage induced in rats by transfer of IRBP-specific T cells.
abstract: Recurrent uveitis is a common cause of vision blindness. Using a rat model of chronic recurrent uveitis, we examined the relationship between clinical expression, pathological changes, and the heterogeneity of the disease. Chronic recurrent uveitis was induced by adoptive transfer of interphotoreceptor retinoid-binding protein (IRBP)-specific T cells in a total of more than 60 Lewis rats. In about 75% of cases recurrent uveitis was pathologically a chronic and progressive disease. The major pathological changes included the gradual loss of photoreceptor cells. However, disease progression did not always parallel the severity of ocular inflammation and clinical recurrent disease, with about a quarter showing no pathological damage in the eye.
authors.affiliation: Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Kentucky Lions Eye Center, University of Louisville, 301 E. Muhammad Ali Blvd, Louisville, KY 40202, USA. h0shao01@louisville.edu
authors.forename: Hui
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Shao
authors.forename: Hongsheng
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Shi
authors.forename: Henry J
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Kaplan
authors.forename: Deming
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Sun
mesh_terms: D019264:Adoptive Transfer; D000818:Animals; D001327:Autoimmune Diseases / Q000276:immunology / Q000473:pathology; D002908:Chronic Disease; D018450:Disease Progression; D018984:Epitopes, T-Lymphocyte / Q000276:immunology*; D005260:Female; D020419:Photoreceptor Cells, Vertebrate / Q000276:immunology* / Q000473:pathology*; D051381:Rats; D011917:Rats, Inbred Lew; D012008:Recurrence; D012177:Retinol-Binding Proteins / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000276:immunology*; D013601:T-Lymphocytes / Q000276:immunology / Q000637:transplantation*; D014605:Uveitis / Q000276:immunology* / Q000473:pathology*; D000099214:Retinol-Binding Proteins, Interstitial
chemical_list: D018984:Epitopes, T-Lymphocyte; D012177:Retinol-Binding Proteins; C487847:Rbp3 protein, rat; D000099214:Retinol-Binding Proteins, Interstitial