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One Yin of a Discovery: Blood Vessel Protein Reverses Macular Degeneration, Diabetic Retinopathy In Mice

Posted on March 17, 2008

Two major eye diseases and leading causes of blindness age-related macular degeneration and diabetic retinopathy can be reversed or even prevented by drugs that activate a protein found in blood vessel cells, researchers at the University of Utah School of Medicine and several other institutions have announced in a new study.Damage from both diseases was prevented and even reversed when the protein, Robo4, was activated in mice models that simulate age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and diabetic retinopathy, according to Dean Y. Li, M.D., Ph.D., senior author of the study published Mar...

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