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SUBMITTER: Campa C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2943126 | biostudies-literature | 2010
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Campa Claudio C Costagliola Ciro C Incorvaia Carlo C Sheridan Carl C Semeraro Francesco F De Nadai Katia K Sebastiani Adolfo A Parmeggiani Francesco F
Mediators of inflammation 20100825
Choroidal neovascularization (CNV) is a common and severe complication in heterogeneous diseases affecting the posterior segment of the eye, the most frequent being represented by age-related macular degeneration. Although the term may suggest just a vascular pathological condition, CNV is more properly definable as an aberrant tissue invasion of endothelial and inflammatory cells, in which both angiogenesis and inflammation are involved. Experimental and clinical evidences show that vascular en ...[more]