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 5ET-1 immunoreactivity in control retina is upregulated under hypoxia, but is less in VENIFARKO and even less in VENIRKO mice. ET-1 immunoreactivity was constitutively seen in each control (
a and
e), VENIRKO (
b), and VENIFARKO (
f) retina and was obviously upregulated in the ΔO
2 model of each control in the preretinal region (
c and
g). The induction of ET-1 in VENIRKO retina (
d) was blunted 37% (
P < 0.01; see Figure
6d), and that in VENIFARKO retina (
h) declined 24% (
P < 0.05; see Figure
6d).