31st Meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes Eye Complications Study Group (EASDec) Odense, Denmark, 28th – 30th October 2021

Abstract

The complexity of retinal structure reflects on the difficulty to describe its composite cell interactions and the pathways involved. Microglial cells are the main responsible cell-type for the modulation of immune responses to inflammatory stimuli that occur in the retina in diabetes. The majority of studies on retinal inflammation in diabetic retinopathy in the literature use rodent microglial lines, because of the scarce availability of human cell sources. We carried out a detailed characterization of a