Molecular vision

· 2 papers in corpus

lab-animal 2019

The anti-inflammatory effect of minocycline on endotoxin-induced uveitis and retinal inflammation in rats.

·PMID:31354229

PurposeUveitis is a serious inflammatory disease of the uvea, frequently leading to visual impairment and irreversible blindness. Here, we investigated the anti-inflammatory effect of minocycline on rat endotoxin-induced uveitis (EIU) and r…

observational 2009

Genotype analysis of polymorphisms in autoimmune susceptibility genes, CTLA-4 and PTPN22, in an acute anterior uveitis cohort

·PMID:19180256

PURPOSE: Acute anterior uveitis (AAU) is the most common form of uveitis and is thought to be autoimmune in nature. Recent studies have described genes that act as master controllers of autoimmunity. Protein tyrosine phosphatase type 22 (PT…