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ArticleInternational journal of ophthalmology2018

A hypothesis for treating inflammation and oxidative stress with hydrogen sulfide during age-related macular degeneration.

Akash K George, Mahavir Singh, Rubens Petit Homme, Avisek Majumder, Harpal S Sandhu, Suresh C Tyagi

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Article in International journal of ophthalmology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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20citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
2.7field-weighted citation impact, top 11% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

20 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 33 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Akash K GeorgeEye and Vision Science Laboratory, Department of Physiology, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, Kentucky 40202, USA.
Mahavir SinghEye and Vision Science Laboratory, Department of Physiology, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, Kentucky 40202, USA.
Rubens Petit HommeEye and Vision Science Laboratory, Department of Physiology, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, Kentucky 40202, USA.
Avisek MajumderDepartment of Physiology, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, Kentucky 40202, USA.
Harpal S SandhuDepartment of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, Kentucky 40202, USA.
Suresh C TyagiDepartment of Physiology, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, Kentucky 40202, USA.
University of Louisville · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a leading cause of blindness and is becoming a global crisis since affected people will increase to 288 million by 2040. Genetics, age, diabetes, gender, obesity, hypertension, race, hyperopia, iris-color, smoking, sun-light and pyroptosis have varying roles in AMD, but oxidative stress-induced inflammation remains a significant driver of pathobiology. Eye is a unique organ as it contains a remarkable oxygen-gradient that generates reactive oxygen species (ROS) which upregulates inflammatory pathways. ROS becomes a source of functional and morphological impairments in retinal pigment epithelium (RPE), endothelial cells and retinal ganglion cells. Reports demonstrated that hydrogen sulfide (H

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eye diseaseshydrogen sulfide treatmentinflammationmaculaoxidative stresspyroptosisretinal degeneration

Identifiers

PMID29862191
PMCPMC5957044
OpenAlexW2809767722

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