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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Miller JW
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5683729 | biostudies-literature | 2017
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
US ophthalmic review 20170101 2
While the development of anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (anti-VEGF) as a therapy for neovascular age-related macular degeneration (AMD) was a great success, the pathologic processes underlying dry AMD that eventually leads to photoreceptor dysfunction, death, and vision loss remain elusive to date, with a lack of effective therapies and increasing prevalence of the disease. There is an overwhelming need to improve the classification system of AMD, to increase our understanding of cell d ...[more]