Medicinal plants and natural products as neuroprotective agents in age-related macular degeneration
Neural Regeneration Research, 2020 The retina may suffer neurodegenerative damages, as other tissues of the central nervous system do, and serious eye diseases may develop. One of them is age-related macular degeneration, which causes progressive loss of vision due to retina degeneration.
Francisco Bosch-Morell +9 more
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Treatment Methods Dry Form of Age Macular Degeneration — History and Prospects. Review
Oftalʹmologiâ, 2023 Age related macular degeneration is a leading cause of vision loss and an increasing problem of disability throughout the world among adults. That revue covers historical points, risk factors, pathogenesis, classification and current treatment ways of ...
A. N. Kulikov +2 more
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Therapeutic approaches with intravitreal injections in geographic atrophy secondary to age-related macular degeneration: current drugs and potential molecules [PDF]
, 2019 The present review focuses on recent clinical trials that analyze the efficacy of intravitreal therapeutic agents for the treatment of dry age-related macular degeneration (AMD), such as neuroprotective drugs, and complement inhibitors, also called ...
Cerini, Alberto +5 more
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Blindness incidence in Germany - A population-based study from Württemberg-Hohenzollern [PDF]
, 1999 Few data on the incidence of blindness in Germany are available. We analysed causes of legal blindness for the region Württemberg-Hohenzollern (population 5.5 million) in order to help fill in this gap.
Klauss, V. +4 more
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Autophagy Impairment in Retinal Ganglion Cells Following Hypoglycemia in Mice
Cells(1) Background: Diabetic retinopathy (DR), caused by hypo- and hyperglycaemia, is the leading cause of blindness. Hypoglycemia induces endoplasmic reticulum stress and retinal cell death in mice, and low-glucose conditions induce macroautophagy/autophagy
Daria Fresia +4 more
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Factors associated with extended remission in neovascular age-related macular degeneration on pro re nata treatment protocol. [PDF]
, 2020 AimTo show the characteristics and outcomes of patients with neovascular age-related macular degeneration (nAMD) who had extended remission (ER) while on a pro re nata (PRN) treatment protocol.MethodsThis was a retrospective case-control study of a ...
Amador-Patarroyo, Manuel J +6 more
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Photo-damage, photo-protection and age-related macular degeneration [PDF]
, 2015 Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a degenerative retinal disease that causes blindness in people 60-65 years and older, with the highest prevalence appearing in people 90 years-old or more.
Marquioni Ramella, Melisa Daniela +1 more
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PLoS ONE, 2020 PURPOSE:The aim of this study was to investigate the association between refractive error and prevalence of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) in Korean adults, based on the sex and age group.
Kook Lee +4 more
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Morphometric analyses of the visual pathways in macular degeneration
, 2014 Introduction. Macular degeneration (MD) causes central visual field loss. When field defects occur in both eyes and overlap, parts of the visual pathways are no longer stimulated.
Baseler, Heidi A. +8 more
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Optical Coherence Tomographic Angiography Imaging in Age-Related Macular Degeneration. [PDF]
, 2017 Optical coherence tomographic angiography (OCTA) is emerging as a rapid, noninvasive imaging modality that can provide detailed structural and flow information on retinal and choroidal vasculature.
Desai, Ria +5 more
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