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ReviewOxidative medicine and cellular longevity2018

Age-Related Macular Degeneration: New Paradigms for Treatment and Management of AMD.

Luis Fernando Hernández-Zimbrón, Ruben Zamora-Alvarado, Lenin Ochoa-De la Paz, Raul Velez-Montoya, Edgar Zenteno, Rosario Gulias-Cañizo, Hugo Quiroz-Mercado, Roberto Gonzalez-Salinas

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Review in Oxidative medicine and cellular longevity, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 132 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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132citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

132 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 239 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Luis Fernando Hernández-ZimbrónResearch Department, Asociación Para Evitar la Ceguera, México City, Mexico.ORCID 0000-0002-5098-367X
Ruben Zamora-AlvaradoResearch Department, Asociación Para Evitar la Ceguera, México City, Mexico.
Lenin Ochoa-De la PazResearch Department, Asociación Para Evitar la Ceguera, México City, Mexico.ORCID 0000-0002-7561-0853
Raul Velez-MontoyaResearch Department, Asociación Para Evitar la Ceguera, México City, Mexico.ORCID 0000-0002-6457-4578
Edgar ZentenoBiochemistry Department, School of Medicine, UNAM, 04510 México City, Mexico.ORCID 0000-0001-5603-4072
Rosario Gulias-CañizoResearch Department, Asociación Para Evitar la Ceguera, México City, Mexico.
Hugo Quiroz-MercadoResearch Department, Asociación Para Evitar la Ceguera, México City, Mexico.
Roberto Gonzalez-SalinasResearch Department, Asociación Para Evitar la Ceguera, México City, Mexico.ORCID 0000-0001-6654-5191
Asociacion Para Evitar la Ceguera en México Hospital Dr. Luis Sánchez Bulnes · MXUniversidad Nacional Autónoma de México · MX

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a well-characterized and extensively studied disease. It is currently considered the leading cause of visual disability among patients over 60 years. The hallmark of early AMD is the formation of drusen, pigmentary changes at the macula, and mild to moderate vision loss. There are two forms of AMD: the "dry" and the "wet" form that is less frequent but is responsible for 90% of acute blindness due to AMD. Risk factors have been associated with AMD progression, and they are taking relevance to understand how AMD develops: (1) advanced age and the exposition to environmental factors inducing high levels of oxidative stress damaging the macula and (2) this damage, which causes inflammation inducing a vicious cycle, altogether causing central vision loss. There is neither a cure nor treatment to prevent AMD. However, there are some treatments available for the wet form of AMD. This article will review some molecular and cellular mechanisms associated with the onset of AMD focusing on feasible treatments for each related factor in the development of this pathology such as vascular endothelial growth factor, oxidative stress, failure of the clearance of proteins and organelles, and glial cell dysfunction in AMD.

Indexed as

Macular DegenerationAgedAged, 80 and overFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedRisk Factors

Identifiers

PMID29484106
PMCPMC5816845
OpenAlexW2787548271

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