Sentences with phrase «abnormal blood vessels in the eye»

Summary: Use of eye injections of drugs aimed at slowing the growth of abnormal blood vessels in the eye is becoming more common for the treatment of individuals with many eye problems including macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy and retinal artery or vein blockage.

One class of drugs, called vascular endothelial growth factor inhibitors, for example, is designed to thwart the growth of abnormal blood vessels in the eye.

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Earlier research by other scientists has shown that the drug verteporfin, used to treat abnormal blood vessel formation in the eye, acts on the YAP pathway inhibiting the protein's YAP function.

ROP is a condition that causes abnormal blood vessels to grow in the retina (back of the eye) and can cause retinal detachment, which is a major cause of childhood blindness globally.

Working with mice, a multicenter team of researchers has found a new way to reduce the abnormal blood vessel growth and leakage in the eye that accompany some eye diseases.

In AMD, the retinal pigment epithelial (RPE) cells that support the cells in the eye that detect light wear out, and there is also the growth of abnormal, leaky blood vessels below the retinIn AMD, the retinal pigment epithelial (RPE) cells that support the cells in the eye that detect light wear out, and there is also the growth of abnormal, leaky blood vessels below the retinin the eye that detect light wear out, and there is also the growth of abnormal, leaky blood vessels below the retina.

«Finding a way to control angiogenesis not only provides a target for the development of anti-cancer therapies, but may also prove useful in similarly starving abnormal blood vessel growth elsewhere in the body, like in diabetic eye disease.»

Because, of course, it is this abnormal proliferation of blood vessel cells, which we term angiogenesis, in the back of the eye that is the key feature of wet AMD.

«Instead of treating patients after these abnormal blood vessels form in the eye, we may be able to give patients eye drops or systemic medications that prevent their development in the first place.»