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LSU Health discovers role of 2 proteins in sight and preventing blinding eye diseases

LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER New Orleans, LA – Research led by Nicolas Bazan, MD, Ph.D., Boyd Professor and Director of the Neuroscience Center of Excellence at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, has discovered unique patterns of genetic activity that may lead to the development of blinding retinal diseases. The results are...

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A potential new way to treat some of the most common blinding diseases

Inhibition of atypical protein kinase C may help manage macular edema and vision loss associated with eye diseases, reports The American Journal of Pathology Philadelphia, PA, September 13, 2018 – Many eye diseases, including diabetic retinopathy and macular degeneration, exhibit an increased permeability of blood vessels in the macula (central) portion of the retina leading...