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The Dry Form of Age-Related Macular Degeneration (AMD): The Current Concepts of Pathogenesis and Prospects for Treatment.
Advances in clinical and experimental medicine : official organ Wroclaw Medical University - 1 Jan 2000
Zając-Pytrus Hanna M, Pilecka Agnieszka, Turno-Kręcicka Anna, Adamiec-Mroczek Joanna, Misiuk-Hojło Marta
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Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a disease that causes varying degrees of blindness, which afflicts millions of adults in their later years. Preliminary changes occur during normal aging, but in some individuals the pathology leads to the development of AMD. The pathology seems to be a mixture of biochemical, cellular, and molecular events. Lipofuscinogenesis and early drusen genesis are in the early...
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