@article {1363253,
	title = {Neuronal sirtuin1 mediates retinal vascular regeneration in oxygen-induced ischemic retinopathy},
	journal = {Angiogenesis},
	volume = {16},
	number = {4},
	year = {2013},
	month = {2013 Oct},
	pages = {985-92},
	abstract = {Regeneration of blood vessels in ischemic neuronal tissue is critical to reduce tissue damage in diseases. In proliferative retinopathy, initial vessel loss leads to retinal ischemia, which can induce either regrowth of vessels to restore normal metabolism and minimize damage, or progress to hypoxia-induced sight-threatening pathologic vaso-proliferation. It is not well understood how retinal neurons mediate regeneration of vascular growth in response to ischemic insults. In this study we aim to investigate the potential role of Sirtuin 1 (Sirt1), a metabolically-regulated protein deacetylase, in mediating the response of ischemic neurons to regulate vascular regrowth in a mouse model of oxygen-induced ischemic retinopathy (OIR). We found that Sirt1 is highly induced in the avascular ischemic retina in OIR. Conditional depletion of neuronal Sirt1 leads to significantly decreased retinal vascular regeneration into the avascular zone and increased hypoxia-induced pathologic vascular growth. This effect is likely independent of PGC-1α, a known Sirt1 target, as absence of PGC-1α in knockout mice does not impact vascular growth in retinopathy. We found that neuronal Sirt1 controls vascular regrowth in part through modulating deacetylation and stability of hypoxia-induced factor 1α and 2α, and thereby modulating expression of angiogenic factors. These results indicate that ischemic neurons induce Sirt1 to promote revascularization into ischemic neuronal areas, suggesting a novel role of neuronal Sirt1 in mediating vascular regeneration in ischemic conditions, with potential implications beyond retinopathy.},
	keywords = {Angiogenic Proteins, Animals, Animals, Newborn, Basic Helix-Loop-Helix Transcription Factors, Carbazoles, Cell Line, Disease Models, Animal, Ischemia, Mice, Mice, Inbred C57BL, Mice, Knockout, Neovascularization, Physiologic, Neurons, Organ Culture Techniques, Oxygen, Oxygen Inhalation Therapy, Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor Gamma Coactivator 1-alpha, Protein Processing, Post-Translational, Regeneration, Retinal Ganglion Cells, Retinal Vessels, Retinopathy of Prematurity, RNA, Messenger, Sirtuin 1, Transcription Factors, Up-Regulation},
	issn = {1573-7209},
	doi = {10.1007/s10456-013-9374-5},
	author = {Chen, Jing and Michan, Shaday and Juan, Aimee M and Hurst, Christian G and Hatton, Colman J and Pei, Dorothy T and Joyal, Jean-Sebastien and Evans, Lucy P and Cui, Zhenghao and Stahl, Andreas and Sapieha, Przemyslaw and Sinclair, David A and Smith, Lois E H}
}
