Efficiency of different fragment lengths of the ubiquitous chromatin opening element HNRPA2B1-CBX3 in driving human CD18 gene expression within self-inactivating lentiviral vectors for gene therapy applications

Authors: Chitra Gopinath 1, Sarvani Chodisetty 1, Arkasubhra Ghosh 2, Everette Jacob Remington Nelson Keywords: CD18; Gene therapy; Hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs); Lentiviral vectors; Leukocyte adhesion deficiency type 1 (LAD1); Ubiquitous chromatin opening element (UCOE) PMID: 31200085 DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2019.06.016

Autophagy in corneal health and disease: A concise review

Authors: Lynn M Martin 1, Nallathambi Jeyabalan 2, Ratnakar Tripathi 1, Trailokyanath Panigrahi 2, Philip J Johnson 3, Arkasubhra Ghosh 2, Rajiv R Mohan Keywords: Angiogenesis; Atg; Autophagy; Autophagy dysregulation; Cornea; Corneal fibrosis; Keratoconus; Stroma PMID: 30690084 DOI: 10.1016/j.jtos.2019.01.008

Corneal tomographic features of postrefractive surgery ectasia

Authors: Pooja Khamar 1, Ritika Dalal 1, Rachana Chandapura 2, Mathew Francis 2, Rohit Shetty 1, Everette J R Nelson 3, Rudy M M A Nuijts 4, Abhijit Sinha Roy 2 Keywords: Bowman’s layer; LASIK; OCT; SMILE; cornea; ectasia; tomography. PMID: 30191680 DOI: 10.1002/jbio.201800253

Protective Role of Decellularized Human Amniotic Membrane from Oxidative Stress-Induced Damage on Retinal Pigment Epithelial Cells

Authors: Lekshmi Krishna 1 2, Kamesh Dhamodaran 1, Murali Subramani 1, Murugeswari Ponnulagu 1, Nallathambi Jeyabalan 3, Sai Rama Krishna Meka 4, Chaitra Jayadev 5, Rohit Shetty 6, Kaushik Chatterjee 4, Samanta Sekhar Khora 2, Debashish Das Keywords: decellularized human amniotic membrane; oxidative stress; retinal pigment epithelium. PMID: 33405878 DOI: 10.1021/acsbiomaterials.8b00769

Characterization of Corneal Epithelial Cells in Keratoconus

Authors: Rohit Shetty 1, Krishna Poojita Vunnava 1, Kamesh Dhamodaran 2,3, Himanshu Matalia 1, Subramani Murali 2, Chaitra Jayadev 4, Ponnulagu Murugeswari 2, Arkasubhra Ghosh 5, Debashish Das 2 Keywords: corneal epithelial cells, keratoconus, corneal crosslinking, apoptosis, proliferation, epithelial-mesenchymal transition PMID: 30627477 DOI: 10.1167/tvst.8.1.2

Dopamine levels in human tear fluid.

Authors: Niyati Seshagiri Sharma 1,, Suraj Kumar Acharya 1,, Archana Padmanabhan Nair 1, Jyoti Matalia 1, Rohit Shetty 1, Arkasubhra Ghosh 1, Swaminathan Sethu Keywords: Dopamine, ELISA, plasma, tear fluid PMID: 30574889 DOI: 10.4103/ijo.IJO_568_18.