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Glaucoma, Inflammation and Oxidative Stress: An Attempt to Unify Recent News


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By dave - Posted on 22 April 2007

This article is my attempt to unify some of what has been proposed about the mechanism underlying retinal ganglion cell (RGC) loss in glaucoma. I am going to quickly dive right into the biochemical details of the process as I understand it, and then I will conclude this article with supplementary material meant to familiarize readers with many of the technical terms. Some of you may want to read this supplementary material first if you are not familar with things like glial cells. (And please ask for further clarifications in the comments to this article.)

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