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New Glaucoma Treatment
Vision scientists at UC Berkeley and the University of Toronto have discovered that naturally occurring molecules known as lipid mediators have the potential
to halt the progression of glaucoma, the world’s second-leading cause of blindness. The researchers found that the inflammation-regulating lipid mediators, secreted from star-shaped cells known as astrocytes (pictured above), stopped the degeneration of retinal
ganglion cells.
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