Abstract:
:Before any clinical signs of diabetic retinopathy can be detected, two major histopathological lesions occur in the walls of retinal capillaries: basement membrane thickening; and loss of intramural pericytes (mural cells). A decrease in the number of pericyte to endothelial cell junctions also occurs under diabetic conditions and may result in subsequent proliferation of endothelial cells and microaneurysm formation. Aldose reductase inhibitors prevent all these diabetic microangiopathies of the retina in animal models of diabetes and are presently being tested in clinical trials on diabetic retinopathy. Utilization of aldose reductase inhibitors is a novel approach which would potentially provide a very effective diabetic therapy to be used in addition to insulin.
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Adv Exp Med Bioljournal_title
Advances in experimental medicine and biologyauthors
Robison WG Jrdoi
10.1007/978-1-4684-5616-5_45subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1988-01-01 00:00:00pages
365-72eissn
0065-2598issn
2214-8019journal_volume
246pub_type
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