Emerging drugs for ocular hypertension

AJ Lee, I Goldberg - Expert opinion on emerging drugs, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: Glaucoma is a prevalent ocular disease with characteristic optic disc and visual
field changes. Globally, it is the second most common cause of visual disability, and the …

Pharmacological management of ocular hypertension: current approaches and future prospective

C Bucolo, S Salomone, F Drago, M Reibaldi… - Current opinion in …, 2013 - Elsevier
Elevated eye pressure is the main risk factor for glaucoma, and intraocular pressure rises
when the balance between aqueous humor formation and outflow resistance is …

Controversies in glaucoma: current medical treatment and drug development

C Bucolo, C Bianca Maria Platania… - Current …, 2015 - ingentaconnect.com
Elevated eye pressure is the main risk factor for glaucoma; intraocular pressure rises when
the ratio between aqueous humor formation (inflow) and its outflow is unbalanced. Currently …

The latest drugs in development that reduce intraocular pressure in ocular hypertension and glaucoma

V Jayanetti, S Sandhu, JA Lusthaus - Journal of Experimental …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Glaucoma causes irreversible vision loss, with elevated intraocular pressure (IOP) being the
only known modifiable risk factor. There are a variety of medical and interventional options …

Pharmacotherapies for glaucoma

CB Toris - Current molecular medicine, 2010 - ingentaconnect.com
Glaucoma is a group of progressive optic neuropathies in which the axons in the optic nerve
are injured, retinal ganglion cell numbers are reduced and vision is gradually and …

[HTML][HTML] Focus: drug development: novel pharmacologic candidates for treatment of primary open-angle glaucoma

LJ Lu, JC Tsai, J Liu - The Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Primary open-angle glaucoma (OAG) affects approximately 45 million people worldwide and
more than 2.5 million people aged 40 years or older in the United States. Pharmacologic …

Rho kinase inhibitors as a novel treatment for glaucoma and ocular hypertension

AP Tanna, M Johnson - Ophthalmology, 2018 - Elsevier
In an elegant example of bench-to-bedside research, a hypothesis that cells in the outflow
pathway actively regulate conventional outflow resistance was proposed in the 1990s and …

New pharmacotherapy for the treatment of glaucoma

EM Schehlein, G Novack, AL Robin - Expert Opinion on …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: Glaucoma is the second leading cause of blindness in the world and current
pharmacotherapies for glaucoma have remained relatively unchanged (with the exception of …

Current and emerging medical therapies in the treatment of glaucoma

A Bagnis, M Papadia, R Scotto… - Expert opinion on …, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: Glaucoma is a disease of the eye in which the optic nerve and retinal ganglion
cells (RGCs) are injured, leading to the loss of the peripheral visual field and eventually to …

Rho kinase inhibitors for the treatment of glaucoma

GD Novack - Drugs Future, 2013 - access.portico.org
While many pharmacological treatments exist to lower elevated intraocular pressure (IOP),
many patients require more than one medication, and thus there remains a need for novel …