1.Prediction of oxidative stress injury of trabecular meshwork by abnormal ex-pression of Klotho and apoptosis-related factors in glaucoma patients
Yue DENG ; Tongtong NIU ; Xia LI ; Yi LIU ; Ying ZHOU ; Daikun LEI
Recent Advances in Ophthalmology 2024;44(10):814-817
Objective To investigate the relationship between the expression of Klotho,apoptosis-related factors and oxidative stress injury of the trabecular meshwork in patients with glaucoma.Methods Totally 86 patients(86 eyes)with glaucoma admitted to our hospital from October 2021 to October 2023 were selected as the study group.Tissue sam-ples of trabecular meshwork were obtained during the operation.Trabecular meshwork donor tissues(45 cases)from pa-tients with non-eye diseases were taken as the control group.Hematoxylin-Eosin(HE)staining was used to examine the histopathological characteristics,and the expression levels of Klotho,apoptosis-associated speck-like protein containing a CARD(ASC),cysteine-aspartic proteases-1(Caspase-1),superoxide dismutase(SOD)and peroxidase(POD)in trabecu-lar meshwork tissues were detected.The expression levels of Klotho,ASC,Caspase-1,SOD and POD of patients in the two groups and those expression levels in glaucoma patients with different average visual field defects were compared.The cor-relation between expression levels of Klotho,apoptosis-related proteins and oxidative stress injury of the trabecular mesh-work in glaucoma patients was analyzed by the Pearson method.Results HE staining results showed that the trabecular meshwork structure of patients in the study group was disorganized,with interlaced layers,thickened trabecular bundles and cell nucleus shrinkage,while the lamellas of trabecular meshwork tissues and trabecular cell bundles in the control group were orderly arranged,with normal forms of trabecular cells.In the study group,the expression level of Klotho in trabecular meshwork tissues was lower and the expression levels of ASC and Caspase-1 were higher than those of the con-trol group(all P<0.05).There were statistically significant differences in the expression levels of Klotho,ASC,Caspase-1,SOD and POD in patients with different average visual field defects(all P<0.05).With the increase in disease severity,the expressions of Klotho and SOD showed a significant decrease,while the expressions of ASC,Caspase-1 and POD showed a significant increase(all P<0.05).Pearson correlation analysis showed that Klotho in the trabecular mesh work was negatively correlated with POD and positively correlated with SOD,while ASC and Caspase-1 were positively correlated with POD and negatively correlated with SOD(all P<0.05).Conclusion The expression of Klotho is low in the trabec-ular meshwork tissues of patients with glaucoma,while the expressions of ASC and Caspase-1 are high.These expressions are correlated with the average visual field defect,reflecting the stress injury degree of trabecular meshwork tissues.