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Avital Lily Okrent Smolar

Duke UniversityORCID 0000-0002-1968-2000Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Hao YingiD· 1 shared Howard M. BomzeiD· 1 shared Rahul Viswanath· 1 shared Sandra S. StinnettiD· 1 shared Sidney M. GospeiD· 1 shared

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Pharmacological Depletion of Retinal Mononuclear Phagocytes is Neuroprotective in a Mouse Model of Mitochondrial Optic Neuropathy

Avital Lily Okrent Smolar, Rahul Viswanath, Howard M. Bomze, Hao Ying, Sandra S. Stinnett, Sidney M. Gospe

This study shows that pharmacological depletion of retinal mononuclear phagocytes with pexidartinib, combined with hypoxia, completely protects retinal ganglion cells in a mouse model of mitochondrial optic neuropathy.

Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science · Feb 2, 2026Peer-reviewedNeuroscience