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Sep 2026
Diabetic retinal neurovascular unit injury: mechanisms, imaging evaluation, and integrated therapeutic strategies
Diabetic retinopathy (DR) has long been regarded as an isolated retinal microvascular disease. Histopathological, molecular, imaging, and multi-omics evidence now supports disruption of retinal neurovascular unit (NVU) homeostasis as a central mechanism of DR, in which neuronal degeneration, reactive gliosis, and m...
Hui Liu, Jing Wu, Heng Jiang et al.
· Frontiers in Medicine · 0 citations