{"id":14787,"date":"2019-08-07T16:37:45","date_gmt":"2019-08-07T08:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zoomax.com\/?p=2084"},"modified":"2026-04-20T11:54:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T03:54:35","slug":"viable-treatment-option-for-age-related-macular-degeneration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zoomax.com\/es\/viable-treatment-option-for-age-related-macular-degeneration\/","title":{"rendered":"Opci\u00f3n de tratamiento viable para la degeneraci\u00f3n macular asociada a la edad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scientist announced that a component of the immune system inflammatory cytokine interleukin-18 (IL-18) can prevent, but does not cause, damage to blood vessels behind the retina at the back of eye. This new treatment could be replaceable option for wet age-related macular degeneration (AMD), which can cause central blindness in sufferers. The study was published in the international journal Science Translational Medicine on April 2, 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sarah Doyle, the first author on the paper from Trinity College Dublin and colleagues took the examination of the role of IL-18 in a mouse model with wet age-related macular degeneration and found surprisingly that low does of IL-18 has no adverse effects on the retina and yet still suppresses abnormal blood vessel growth and directly inhibits vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Research Assistant Professor in Genetics at Trinity, Matthew Campbell added: \u201cOur findings have highlighted the power of industry-academic collaborations, the results of which should lead to clinical deployment of IL-18 as a treatment for AMD in the short term&#8221;.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Check the video for more information. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Promising New Treatment for Age-Related Macular Degeneration\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WNNrJ6k0GCE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>To get the latest news on technology:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Add facebook @ZoomaxMagnifiers\u00a0<\/li><li>Like Zoomax page: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Zoomax-Technology-Inc\/296358023779839<\/li><li>Add twitter @ZoomaxMarketing<\/li><\/ol>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cient\u00edficos anuncian que un componente de la citocina inflamatoria del sistema inmunitario IL-18 puede prevenir, pero no causar, da\u00f1os en los vasos sangu\u00edneos situados detr\u00e1s de la retina, en la parte posterior del ojo. Este nuevo tratamiento podr\u00eda ser una opci\u00f3n sustituible para la DMAE h\u00fameda.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21186,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-14787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-living-with-low-vision","tag-assistive-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zoomax.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zoomax.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zoomax.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zoomax.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zoomax.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14787"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/zoomax.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15565,"href":"https:\/\/zoomax.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14787\/revisions\/15565"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zoomax.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zoomax.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zoomax.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zoomax.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}