Knockout of insulin and IGF-1 receptors on vascular endothelial cells protects against retinal neovascularization
J. Clin. Invest. Tatsuya Kondo, et al. 111:1835 doi:10.1172/JCI17455 [
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Figure 3VEGF immunoreactivity in control retina is induced under hypoxia, but is less in VENIFARKO and even less in VENIRKO mice. VEGF immunoreactivity was constitutively observed in each control (
a and
e), VENIRKO (
b), and VENIFARKO (
f) retina and was highly induced in the ΔO
2 model of each control in the preretinal area (
c and
g). The induction of VEGF in VENIRKO retina (
d) was blunted 34% (
P < 0.01; see Figure
6b), and that in VENIFARKO retina (
h) was reduced 18% (not significant; see Figure
6b).