The role of interferon regulatory factor 8 for retinal tissue homeostasis and development of choroidal neovascularisation.
Peipei ZhangAnja SchlechtJulian WolfStefaniya BonevaYannik LaichJana KochFranziska LudwigMyriam BoeckAdrian ThienCarmen HärdtnerKatrin KierdorfHansjürgen AgostiniGünther SchlunckMarco PrinzIngo HilgendorfPeter WieghoferClemens A LangePublished in: Journal of neuroinflammation (2021)
Our results suggest that loss of Irf8 in microglia has negligible effects on retinal homeostasis in the steady state. However, under pathological conditions, Irf8 is crucial for the transformation of resident microglia into a reactive phenotype and thus for the suppression of retinal inflammation and CNV formation.