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SUBMITTER: Hasegawa T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7730440 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hasegawa Tomoko T Ikeda Hanako O HO Iwai Sachiko S Sasaoka Norio N Kakizuka Akira A Tsujikawa Akitaka A
Scientific reports 20201210 1
In glaucoma, retinal ganglion cells degenerate progressively, leading to visual field loss and blindness. Presently, the only treatment strategy for glaucoma is lowering the intraocular pressure. However, there are cases in which patients develop progressive visual field loss even though their intraocular pressures are within normal ranges. Therefore, the development of novel therapeutic strategies is an urgent endeavor. Besides high intraocular pressure, several other factors have been proposed ...[more]