Elsevier

Experimental Eye Research

Volume 69, Issue 3, September 1999, Pages 255-266
Experimental Eye Research

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Stimulus-specific and Cell Type-specific Cascades: Emerging Principles Relating to Control of Apoptosis in the Eye

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Abstract

Apoptosis has a critical role in development, homeostasis, wound healing, and the pathophysiology of disease in the organs of multicellular organisms. It has been implicated in these processes in retina, lens, cornea, trabecular meshwork, optic nerve, and the central nervous system pathways that contribute to vision. Considerable interest has been focused on inhibiting apoptosis to control disease and wound healing processes in which programmed cell death is thought to have a critical role. A simplified view led to the search for effective inhibitors of ‘the final common pathway for apoptosis’. Recent studies have provided important insights into the modulators that participate in and regulate the apoptosis cascades which are activated in response to cytokines, ionizing radiation, chemotherapeutic agents, growth factor deprivation, and other stimulators of cell death. These studies lead to the inescapable conclusion that the apoptosis pathways are not only stimulus-specific, but also cell-type specific. These observations have important implications related to development of pharmacological strategies for controlling apoptosis-associated disease and apoptosis-initiated wound healing.

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