Background: Glaucoma is the leading cause of irreversible blindness incapacitating over 80 million people worldwide. Several pathogenetic mechanisms have been postulated to explain the optic nerve damage that occur in...
Background:Pathogenic mechanisms leading to open-angle glaucoma(OAG)are genetically complex.They involve neuroinflammation,elevation of intra-ocular pressures(IOP)and optic nerve hypersensitivity to cellular stresses....
Background: Glaucoma is a major cause of irreversible blindness worldwide. There is evidence showing that a subset of the disease is genetically determined. In this study, we screened for mutations in chromosome lq-l...
The work was supported by a grant from Project of Science Foundation of Mudanjiang (No. G2012s0028).
INTRODUCTION Glaucoma is a chronic progressive neurodegenerative disease and exhibits heterogeneity, polygenic inheritance, and incomplete penetrance. Primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG) is the most common form of gl...
Medical Scientific Research Foundation of Guangdong Province(No.A2013215)
AIM: To describe the anticipation and anti-glaucoma drugs response of a Chinese family with juvenile-onset open angle glaucoma(JOAG) caused by the Pro370Leu myocilin(MYOC) mutation. ·METHODS: Fifteen members of a thr...
National Nature Science Foundation of China (No.81170851)
AIM: To detect the mutations in two candidate genes, myocilin (MYOC ) and cytochrome P450 1B1 (CYP1B1 ), in a Chinese family with primary open angle glaucoma (POAG). ·METHODS:Thefamilywascomposedofthreemembers, the p...