Anti-VEGF drugs for retinal diseases could have serious side effects
Monday, November 3, 2008 - 11:56
in Health & Medicine
Scientists at Schepens Eye Research Institute have found that reducing the levels of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), which is best known as a stimulator of new blood vessel growth, in adult mice causes the death of photoreceptors and Muller glia - cells of the retina that are essential to visual function...