Uveitis in mouse and man

JV Forrester, IP Klaska, T Yu… - International reviews of …, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
Uveitis is underappreciated as a sight-threatening cause of blindness. There are two broad
causative classes of uveitis: infectious and non-infectious. Non-infectious uveitis is …

Neonatal brain-directed gene therapy rescues a mouse model of neurodegenerative CLN6 Batten disease

…, M Basche, AZ Shah, IP Klaska… - Human molecular …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
The neuronal ceroid lipofuscinoses (NCLs), more commonly referred to as Batten disease,
are a group of inherited lysosomal storage disorders that present with neurodegeneration, …

A key role for PTP1B in dendritic cell maturation, migration, and T cell activation

…, AR Prescott, S Le Sommer, IP Klaska… - Journal of molecular …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Dendritic cells (DC) are the major antigen-presenting cells bridging innate and adaptive
immunity, a function they perform by converting quiescent DC to active, mature DC with the …

[HTML][HTML] Colitis in a transgenic mouse model of autoimmune uveitis may be induced by neoantigen presentation in the bowel

C Moelzer, YH Liu, E Muckersie, IP Klaska… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Undifferentiated uveitis (intraocular inflammation, IOI) is an idiopathic sight-threatening,
presumed autoimmune disease, accountable for ~ 10% of all blindness in the developed world. …

Lipopolysaccharide‐primed heterotolerant dendritic cells suppress experimental autoimmune uveoretinitis by multiple mechanisms

IP Klaska, E Muckersie, C Martin‐Granados… - …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Exposure of bone‐marrow‐derived dendritic cells ( BMDC ) to high‐dose ultrapure
lipopolysaccharide for 24 hr ( LPS ‐primed BMDC ) enhances their potency in preventing inter‐…

Cell-based therapies for ocular inflammation

JV Forrester, RJ Steptoe, IP Klaska… - Progress in retinal and …, 2013 - Elsevier
Since the plasticity and the potential for re-programming cells has become widely accepted,
there has been great interest in cell-based therapies. These are being applied to a range of …

[HTML][HTML] Targeted delivery of autoantigen to dendritic cells prevents development of spontaneous uveitis

IP Klaska, T Yu, R Fordyce, K Kamoi… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
… Accordingly, we explored whether delivery of this antibody intraperitoneally (ip) … ip delivery
(Figure 2: P60 inflammatory score sc vs isotype control p= 0.0036; P60 inflammatory score ip

[HTML][HTML] Treatment with FoxP3+ antigen-experienced T regulatory cells arrests progressive retinal damage in a spontaneous model of uveitis

…, K Makinen, K Kamoi, CLC Corbett, IP Klaska… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
We specify the clinical features of a spontaneous experimental autoimmune uveitis (EAU)
model, in which foreign hen-egg lysozyme (HEL) is expressed in the retina, controlled by the …

[HTML][HTML] Stabilization of myeloid-derived HIFs promotes vascular regeneration in retinal ischemia

P Villacampa, SE Liyanage, IP Klaska, E Cristante… - Angiogenesis, 2020 - Springer
The retinal vasculature is tightly organized in a structure that provides for the high metabolic
demand of neurons while minimizing interference with incident light. The adverse impact of …

[HTML][HTML] A role for PP1/NIPP1 in steering migration of human cancer cells

…, N Van Dessel, A Van Eynde, M Arocena, IP Klaska… - PloS one, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Electrical gradients are present in many developing and regenerating tissues and around
tumours. Mimicking endogenous electric fields in vitro has profound effects on the behaviour of …