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Altered activation state of circulating neutrophils in patients with neovascular age-related macular degeneration

Overview of attention for article published in Immunity & Ageing, July 2017
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Title
Altered activation state of circulating neutrophils in patients with neovascular age-related macular degeneration
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Immunity & Ageing, July 2017
DOI 10.1186/s12979-017-0100-9
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Marie Krogh Nielsen, Sven Magnus Hector, Kelly Allen, Yousif Subhi, Torben Lykke Sørensen

Abstract

Neutrophil dysfunction plays a key role in the development of diseases characterized by inflammation and angiogenesis. Here, we studied the systemic expression of neutrophil markers reflecting activation, adhesion, and resolution of inflammation in patients with neovascular age-related macular degeneration (AMD). This was a prospective case-control study of patients with neovascular AMD and age-matched healthy control individuals. Patients were recruited from an outpatient program, and control individuals were recruited amongst patients' relatives. Current smokers and individuals with either active immune-disease or ongoing cancer were not included, as these factors are known to affect neutrophil function. Fresh-drawn venous blood was processed for flow cytometric analysis of neutrophil markers. We determined percentages of positive cells and compared expression levels using fluorescence intensity measures. We found conditional differences on marker expression between patients with neovascular AMD (n = 29) and controls (n = 28): no differences were found when looking broadly, but several differences emerged when focusing on non-smokers. Here, patients with neovascular AMD had increased expression of the activity marker cluster of differentiation (CD) 66b (P = 0.003; Mann-Whitney U test), decreased expression of adhesion marker CD162 (P = 0.044; Mann-Whitney U test), and lower expression of the resolution of inflammation marker C-X-C chemokine receptor 2 (P = 0.044; Mann-Whitney U test). We present novel evidence suggesting that the activity of circulating neutrophils, sensitive to smoking, may differ in patients with neovascular AMD.

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Unknown 33 100%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Doctoral Student 5 15%
Student > Ph. D. Student 5 15%
Researcher 5 15%
Other 3 9%
Student > Master 3 9%
Other 2 6%
Unknown 10 30%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 7 21%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 6 18%
Nursing and Health Professions 2 6%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 2 6%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 1 3%
Other 4 12%
Unknown 11 33%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 09 October 2017.
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#14,076,260
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#198
of 376 outputs
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#170,555
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Outputs of similar age from Immunity & Ageing
#3
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