disease

Macular Degeneration

Entity Detail — Knowledge Graph Node

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This page aggregates everything SciDEX knows about Macular Degeneration: its mechanistic relationships (Knowledge Graph edges), hypotheses targeting it, analyses mentioning it, and supporting scientific papers. The interactive graph below shows its immediate neighbors. All content is AI-synthesized from peer-reviewed literature.

296Connections

0Hypotheses

0Analyses

50Outgoing

50Incoming

0Experiments

0Debates

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Disease Info

Associated Genes	ABCA1, ABCA4, ABCA7, AGING, AKT, ALZHEIMER, ALZHEIMER DISEASE, ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE
KG Connections	289 knowledge graph edges
Databases	OMIM Orphanet ClinicalTrials PubMed

Pathway Diagram

graph TD
    Macular_Degeneration["Macular Degeneration"] -->|"therapeutic target"| Autophagy["Autophagy"]
    Macular_Degeneration["Macular Degeneration"] -->|"therapeutic target"| Apoptosis["Apoptosis"]
    Macular_Degeneration["Macular Degeneration"] -->|"associated"| Autophagy_1["Autophagy"]
    Macular_Degeneration["Macular Degeneration"] -->|"regulates"| Differentiation["Differentiation"]
    Macular_Degeneration["Macular Degeneration"] -->|"causes"| Epithelial_Mesenchymal_Transit["Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition"]
    Macular_Degeneration["Macular Degeneration"] -->|"causes"| Oxidative_Stress["Oxidative Stress"]
    AUTOPHAGY["AUTOPHAGY"] -->|"therapeutic target"| Macular_Degeneration["Macular Degeneration"]
    APOPTOSIS["APOPTOSIS"] -->|"therapeutic target"| Macular_Degeneration["Macular Degeneration"]
    AUTOPHAGY_2["AUTOPHAGY"] -->|"activates"| Macular_Degeneration["Macular Degeneration"]
    AUTOPHAGY_3["AUTOPHAGY"] -->|"associated"| Macular_Degeneration["Macular Degeneration"]
    style Macular_Degeneration fill:#ef5350,stroke:#4fc3f7,stroke-width:2px,color:#e0e0e0

Outgoing (80)

Target	Relation	Type	Str
Apoptosis	therapeutic_target	pathway	0.80
Autophagy	therapeutic_target	pathway	0.80
Differentiation	regulates	pathway	0.70
Autophagy	associated_with	pathway	0.70
Oxidative Stress	causes	pathway	0.70
Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition	causes	pathway	0.70
Als	therapeutic_target	disease	0.65
Autophagy	activates	pathway	0.65
Alzheimer	associated_with	disease	0.65
Inflammation	therapeutic_target	disease	0.65
Senescence	therapeutic_target	pathway	0.60
Mitochondrial Function	associated_with	pathway	0.60
Oxidative Stress	associated_with	pathway	0.60
Apoptosis	implicated_in	pathway	0.60
Pyroptosis	implicated_in	pathway	0.60
Synaptic Plasticity	regulates	pathway	0.60
Oxidative Stress	regulates	pathway	0.60
Oxidative Stress	therapeutic_target	pathway	0.60
Mitophagy	causes	pathway	0.60
Senescence	causes	pathway	0.60
Phagocytosis	causes	pathway	0.60
Mitochondrial Function	causes	pathway	0.60
Autophagy	causes	pathway	0.60
Mtor	regulates	pathway	0.60
Mtor	associated_with	pathway	0.60
Complement	associated_with	pathway	0.60
Oxidative Stress	interacts_with	pathway	0.60
Mitophagy	associated_with	pathway	0.60
Ferroptosis	therapeutic_target	pathway	0.60
Nf-Κb	activates	pathway	0.60
Oxidative Stress	activates	pathway	0.60
Mitochondrial Function	activates	pathway	0.60
Nf-Κb	therapeutic_target	pathway	0.55
Ferroptosis	activates	pathway	0.55
Inflammasome	activates	pathway	0.55
Cancer	therapeutic_target	disease	0.55
Inflammation	activates	disease	0.55
Lymphoma	therapeutic_target	disease	0.55
Alzheimer	therapeutic_target	disease	0.55
Cardiovascular	implicated_in	disease	0.55
Parkinson	associated_with	disease	0.55
Sarcopenia	associated_with	disease	0.55
Macrophage	transports	cell_type	0.55
Mapk	activates	pathway	0.55
Apoptosis	protects_against	pathway	0.55
Epithelial	activates	cell_type	0.55
Mitochondrial Function	therapeutic_target	pathway	0.55
T Cell	therapeutic_target	cell_type	0.55
Cholesterol	transports	pathway	0.55
Neuron	transports	cell_type	0.55

Incoming (216)

Source	Relation	Type	Str
Stargardt'S Disease	associated_with	disease	0.90
Stargardt's Disease	involved_in	disease	0.85
APOPTOSIS	therapeutic_target	gene	0.85
AUTOPHAGY	therapeutic_target	gene	0.85
LC3	therapeutic_target	gene	0.75
BCL-2	therapeutic_target	gene	0.75
ALZHEIMER	associated_with	gene	0.75
OXIDATIVE STRESS	causes	gene	0.75
AUTOPHAGY	associated_with	gene	0.75
MITOCHONDRIA	associated_with	gene	0.75
AUTOPHAGY	activates	gene	0.75
INFLAMMATION	therapeutic_target	gene	0.75
SQSTM1	activates	gene	0.65
TFEB	activates	gene	0.65
RNA	activates	gene	0.65
LC3B	activates	gene	0.65
CD36	activates	gene	0.65
ATP	associated_with	gene	0.65
ABCA4	associated_with	gene	0.65
ABCA7	transports	gene	0.65
ABCA1	associated_with	gene	0.65
ALZHEIMER DISEASE	associated_with	gene	0.65
TNF	associated_with	gene	0.65
MAF	associated_with	gene	0.65
ZCWPW1	associated_with	gene	0.65
ABCA7	associated_with	gene	0.65
PILRA	associated_with	gene	0.65
ATG4B	activates	gene	0.65
LC3	activates	gene	0.65
AUTOPHAGY	regulates	gene	0.65
PINK1	regulates	gene	0.65
NEUROINFLAMMATION	regulates	gene	0.65
PTEN	regulates	gene	0.65
GASTRODIN	activates	gene	0.65
BAX	regulates	gene	0.65
BAD	regulates	gene	0.65
NEURODEGENERATION	regulates	gene	0.65
OXIDATIVE STRESS	regulates	gene	0.65
NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES	therapeutic_target	gene	0.65
ASTROCYTES	regulates	gene	0.65
BCL-2	regulates	gene	0.65
STROKE	therapeutic_target	gene	0.65
MITOCHONDRIAL DYSFUNCTION	regulates	gene	0.65
DNA	regulates	gene	0.65
MICROGLIA	regulates	gene	0.65
APOPTOSIS	implicated_in	gene	0.65
NEURODEGENERATION	implicated_in	gene	0.65
PYROPTOSIS	implicated_in	gene	0.65
NEURODEGENERATIVE DISORDERS	associated_with	gene	0.65
ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE	associated_with	gene	0.65

Targeting Hypotheses (0)

Hypotheses where this entity is a therapeutic target

Hypothesis	Score	Disease	Analysis
No targeting hypotheses

Mentioning Analyses (0)

Scientific analyses that reference this entity

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Experiments (0)

Experimental studies targeting or related to this entity

Experiment	Type	Disease	Score	Feasibility	Model	Status	Est. Cost
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Related Papers (0)

Scientific publications cited in analyses involving this entity

Title & PMID	Authors	Journal	Year	Citations
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Debates (0)

Multi-agent debates referencing this entity

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Related Research

Hypotheses and analyses mentioning Macular Degeneration in their description or question text

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