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Article: Angiogenic shifts contribute to age-related macular degeneration in aged eyes.
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- Proteomics Weekly
- Article date:
- March 15, 2004
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2004 MAR 15 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Angiogenic shifts contribute to age-related macular degeneration in aged eyes.
According to recent research published in the journal Graefes Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology, "growth factors (GF) are important in several stages of the pathogenesis of age-related macular disease (AMD). In choroidal neovascularization (CNV) in exudative AMD, the GF involved are similar to those involved in wound healing of the skin. Like granulation tissue of skin, CNV is characterized by clotting, inflammation, angiogenesis and fibrosis, and like in skin wounds, members of the vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), ...