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The Link Between Iron and Vision Loss, and a Potential Therapeutic Agent (1 of 1)

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The Link Between Iron and Vision Loss, and a Potential Therapeutic Agent (1 of 1)

image: Image of a detached retina on spectral domain optical coherence tomography. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Jan. 9th, 2019, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by A. Daruich at Université Sorbonne Paris Cité in Paris, France, and colleagues was titled, "Iron is neurotoxic in retinal detachment and transferrin confers neuroprotection." view more 

Credit: The clinical images come from Pr Behar-Cohen and the scheme has been provided by Dr Emilie Picard


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