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Nature Medicine 9, 1350 - 1351 (2003)
doi:10.1038/nm1103-1350
Macrophages eyed in macular degeneration
J V Forrester1
- J.V. Forrester is in the Department of Ophthalmology, University of Aberdeen Medical School, Foresterhill, Aberdeen, AB25 2ZD, UK. e-mail: j.forrester@abdn.ac.uk
Abstract
A new animal model for macular degeneration begins to reveal the inner workings of the delicate system of inflammatory checks and balances underlying this form of vision loss (pages 1390–1397).
The eye is an exquisitely engineered organ but, like any delicate instrument, it wears as it ages. Damage to the macula, an area rich in cone photoreceptors, leads to age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and the blurring of the world for millions of people1.
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