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For the in vivo study, a swine PVR model was established by inducing retinal detachment and injecting cultured RPE cells (2.0 \u00d7 106). Concurrently, 1 week after RPE cell injection, the anti-ATX aptamer, RBM-006 (10 mg\/mL, 0.1 mL), was injected twice into the vitreous cavity. Post-injection effects of the anti-ATX aptamer on PVR development in the in vivo swine PVR model were investigated. For the in vitro evaluation, the cultured RPE cell proliferation and migration were significantly reduced at anti-ATX aptamer concentrations of 0.5\u20130.05 mg and at only 0.5 mg, respectively. Intravitreal administration of the anti-ATX aptamer also prevented tractional retinal detachment caused by PVR in the in vivo PVR model. We observed that the anti-ATX aptamer, RBM-006, inhibited PVR-related RPE cell proliferation and migration in vitro and inhibited the progression of PVR in the in vivo model, suggesting that the anti-ATX aptamer may be effective in preventing PVR.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/ijms242115926","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,11,3]],"date-time":"2023-11-03T02:41:56Z","timestamp":1698979316000},"page":"15926","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":3,"title":["The Effect of Anti-Autotaxin Aptamers on the Development of Proliferative Vitreoretinopathy"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"24","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1900-949X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Hirotsugu","family":"Hanazaki","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Division of Ophthalmology, Department of Visual Sciences, Nihon University School of Medicine, 30-1 Oyaguchi-Kamicho, Itabashi-ku, Tokyo 173-8610, Japan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-1878-6032","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Harumasa","family":"Yokota","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Division of Ophthalmology, Department of Visual Sciences, Nihon University School of Medicine, 30-1 Oyaguchi-Kamicho, Itabashi-ku, Tokyo 173-8610, Japan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Satoru","family":"Yamagami","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Division of Ophthalmology, Department of Visual Sciences, Nihon University School of Medicine, 30-1 Oyaguchi-Kamicho, Itabashi-ku, Tokyo 173-8610, Japan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-8763-0424","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Yoshikazu","family":"Nakamura","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"The Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-8639, Japan"},{"name":"RIBOMIC Inc., Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-0071, Japan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-3933-1002","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Taiji","family":"Nagaoka","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Division of Ophthalmology, Department of Visual Sciences, Nihon University School of Medicine, 30-1 Oyaguchi-Kamicho, Itabashi-ku, Tokyo 173-8610, Japan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,11,3]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"557","DOI":"10.1016\/j.jfo.2014.04.001","article-title":"Proliferative Vitreoretinopathy: Pathophysiology and Clinical Diagnosis","volume":"37","author":"Rouberol","year":"2014","journal-title":"J. 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