Curcumin inhibits neuronal and vascular degeneration in retina after ischemia and reperfusion injury.

Neuron loss, glial activation and vascular degeneration are common sequelae of ischemia-reperfusion (I/R) injury in ocular diseases. The present study was conducted to explore the ability of curcumin to inhibit retinal I/R injury, and to investigate underlying mechanisms of the drug effects.Differen...

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Main Authors: Leilei Wang, Chuanzhou Li, Hao Guo, Timothy S Kern, Kun Huang, Ling Zheng
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3153496?pdf=render