PURPOSE The retina plays an important regulatory role in ocular growth. To screen for new retinal candidate genes that could be involved in the inhibition of ocular growth, we used chick microarrays to analyze the changes in retinal mRNA expression after myopic defocus was imposed by positive lens wear. METHODS Four male white leghorn chicks, aged nine days, wore +6.9D spectacle lenses over b...

Abstract TIGIT is an emerging immune checkpoint receptor expressed higher than PD-1 in some tumors especially anti-PD1 resistant tumors. By competing with the co-stimulatory CD226/DNAM-1 for binding to CD155/PVR, transduces inhibitory signals and suppresses response. Therefore, we sought discover inhibitors improving tumor immunotherapy. Through directional cloning, bacterial transformation pha...