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Oral administration of a dual ET <sub>A</sub> /ET <sub>B</sub> receptor antagonist promotes neuroprotection in a rodent model of glaucoma
2020-10-27
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<h4>Purpose</h4> Glaucoma is a neurodegenerative disease associated with elevated intraocular pressure and characterized by optic nerve axonal degeneration, cupping of the optic disc and loss of retinal ganglion cells (RGCs). The endothelin (ET) system of vasoactive peptides (ET-1, ET-2, ET-3) and their G-protein coupled receptors (ET A and ET B receptors) have been shown to be contributors to the pathophysiolo...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 3459e965-fee8-5403-8c59-9f0b549639be
- DOI
- 10.1101/2020.10.27.357384
