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Ocular therapeutics : eye on new discoveries /

Ocular Therapeutics: Eye on New Discovery focuses on emerging areas in ocular research, from new approaches to dry eye to gene therapy in the management of retinal diseases. This comprehensive book features more than 25 chapters of information that will be vital for ocular investigators and ophthalm...

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Corporate Authors: Elsevier Science & Technology
Group Author: Yorio, Thomas; Clark, Abbot F; Wax, Martin B
Published: Academic,
Publisher Address: Amsterdam ; Boston ; London :
Publication Dates: 2008.
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Edition: First edition.
Subjects:
Eye > Diseases > Treatment
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Online Access: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780123705853
Summary: Ocular Therapeutics: Eye on New Discovery focuses on emerging areas in ocular research, from new approaches to dry eye to gene therapy in the management of retinal diseases. This comprehensive book features more than 25 chapters of information that will be vital for ocular investigators and ophthalmologists bringing them new information on promising therapeutics. It is the intent of this book to provide not only information on current approaches to treatment, but also in giving the reader a greater understanding as to what may become available for treating a number of important eye diseases.
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (xv, 520 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9780123705853
0123705851
Index Number: RE46
CLC: R77
Contents: Section I -- General Principles and Therapeutic Targets -- Chapter 1: The Eye as Drug Target: Overview -- Chapter 2: Drug Delivery Systems in Ophthalmic Applications -- Chapter 3: IOP as a Target -- Inflow and Outflow Pathways -- Chapter 4: The ciliary body: a potential multifaceted functional neuroendocrine unit. -- Chapter 5: Growth Factors and Neurotrophic Factors as Targets -- Section II. Visual Pathway -- Chapter 6: New therapies for Dry Eye Disease -- Chapter 7: Refractive Surgery: Corneal Opacity (haze) after Surface Ablation -- Chapter 8: Progress in Preventing Age-Related Cataract -
Eye as a drug target /
drug delivery systems in ophthalmic applications /
IOP as a target-inflow and outflow pathways /
Ciliary body: a potential multifaceted functional neuroendocrine unit /
Growth factors and neurotrophic factors as targets /
New therapies for dry eye disease /
Refractive surgery-corneal opacity (haze) after surface ab

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