PMID- 32490016 OWN - NLM STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE LR - 20200928 IS - 2322-4436 (Print) IS - 2322-3219 (Electronic) IS - 2322-3219 (Linking) VI - 9 IP - 2 DP - 2020 Summer TI - A Review of Last Decade Developments on Epiretinal Membrane Pathogenesis. PG - 91-110 AB - Epiretinal membrane (ERM) is a pathologic tissue that develops at the vitreoretinal interface. ERM is responsible for pathological changes of vision with varying degrees of clinical significance. It is either idiopathic or secondary to a wide variety of diseases such as proliferative diabetic retinopathy (PDR) and proliferative vitreoretinopathy (PVR). A great variation in the prevalence of idiopathic ERM among different ethnic groups proposed that genetic and lifestyle factors may play a role in ERM occurrence. Histopathological studies demonstrate that various cell types including retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) cells, fibrocytes, fibrous astrocytes, myofibroblast-like cells, glial cells, endothelial cells (ECs) and macrophages, as well as trophic and transcription factors, including transforming growth factor (TGF), vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) etc., are directly or indirectly involved in the pathogenesis of idiopathic or secondary ERMs. These processes are driven (on the last count) by more than 50 genes, such as Tumor Necrosis Factor (TNF), CCL2 (chemokine (C-C motif) ligand )), Metastasis Associated Lung Adenocarcinoma Transcript 1 )MALAT1(, transforming growth factor (TGF)-beta1, TGF-beta2, Interleukin-6 (IL-6), IL-10, VEGF and glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP), some of which have been studied more intensely than others. The present paper tried to summarize, highlight and cross-correlate the major findings made in the last decade on the function of these genes and their association with different types of cells, genes and gene expression products in the ERM formation. CI - Copyright (c) 2020, Author(s). FAU - Tsotridou, Eleni AU - Tsotridou E AD - Ophthalmica Eye Institute, Thessaloniki, Greece. AD - Faculty of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece. FAU - Loukovitis, Eleftherios AU - Loukovitis E AD - Ophthalmica Eye Institute, Thessaloniki, Greece. AD - Department of Ophthalmology, 424 General Military Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece. FAU - Zapsalis, Konstantinos AU - Zapsalis K AD - Ophthalmica Eye Institute, Thessaloniki, Greece. AD - Faculty of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece. FAU - Pentara, Iro AU - Pentara I AD - Ophthalmica Eye Institute, Thessaloniki, Greece. AD - Faculty of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece. FAU - Asteriadis, Solon AU - Asteriadis S AD - Ophthalmica Eye Institute, Thessaloniki, Greece. FAU - Tranos, Paris AU - Tranos P AD - Ophthalmica Eye Institute, Thessaloniki, Greece. FAU - Zachariadis, Zachos AU - Zachariadis Z AD - Ophthalmica Eye Institute, Thessaloniki, Greece. FAU - Anogeianakis, George AU - Anogeianakis G AD - Ophthalmica Eye Institute, Thessaloniki, Greece. AD - Association for Training in Biomedical Technology, Thessaloniki, Greece. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Review DEP - 20200320 PL - United States TA - Med Hypothesis Discov Innov Ophthalmol JT - Medical hypothesis, discovery & innovation ophthalmology journal JID - 101611331 PMC - PMC7134239 OTO - NOTNLM OT - Cell types OT - ERM OT - Epiretinal Membrane OT - Idiopathic OT - Pathogenesis OT - Secondary OT - Transcription Factors OT - Trophic Factors EDAT- 2020/06/04 06:00 MHDA- 2020/06/04 06:01 PMCR- 2020/06/01 CRDT- 2020/06/04 06:00 PHST- 2020/06/04 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2020/06/04 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2020/06/04 06:01 [medline] PHST- 2020/06/01 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - mehdiophth-9-091 [pii] PST - ppublish SO - Med Hypothesis Discov Innov Ophthalmol. 2020 Summer;9(2):91-110. Epub 2020 Mar 20.