Chronic, Systemic Interleukin-18 Does Not Promote Macular Degeneration or Choroidal Neovascularization

Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2017 Mar 1;58(3):1764-1765. doi: 10.1167/iovs.17-21697.

Authors

Scott W Canna¹, Guangpu Shi², Igal Gery², H Nida Sen²

Affiliations

¹ The Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States; and the.
² National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States.

No abstract available

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Choroidal Neovascularization / etiology
Choroidal Neovascularization / metabolism*
Chronic Disease
Humans
Interleukin-18 / blood
Interleukin-18 / metabolism*
Macular Degeneration / etiology
Macular Degeneration / metabolism*

Substances

Interleukin-18