The role of lipid toxicity and para-inflammation as potential mechanisms of age related macular degeneration

Age-Related Macular Degeneration (ARMD) is the most common cause of legal blindness in the elderly in the western world. One of the earliest signs of aging is the accumulation of lipid rich debris within and underneath the Retinal Pigmented Epithelium (RPE) cells, known as “drusen”. The disease is p...

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Main Author: Al-Rashed, Fatema
Format: Thesis (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 2016
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/32868/