{"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\/fr\/viable-treatment-option-for-age-related-macular-degeneration\/","title":{"rendered":"Option th\u00e9rapeutique viable pour la d\u00e9g\u00e9n\u00e9rescence maculaire li\u00e9e \u00e0 l'\u00e2ge"},"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>Des scientifiques ont annonc\u00e9 qu'un composant du syst\u00e8me immunitaire, la cytokine inflammatoire IL-18, peut pr\u00e9venir, sans les provoquer, les l\u00e9sions des vaisseaux sanguins situ\u00e9s derri\u00e8re la r\u00e9tine, \u00e0 l'arri\u00e8re de l'\u0153il. Ce nouveau traitement pourrait \u00eatre une option rempla\u00e7able pour la DMLA humide.<\/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\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zoomax.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zoomax.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zoomax.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zoomax.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14787"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/zoomax.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15565,"href":"https:\/\/zoomax.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14787\/revisions\/15565"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zoomax.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zoomax.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zoomax.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zoomax.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}