The Role of the Reactive Oxygen Species and Oxidative Stress in the Pathomechanism of the Age-Related Ocular Diseases and Other Pathologies of the Anterior and Posterior Eye Segments in Adults

Oxidative Medicine and Cellular Longevity

Volumn 2016, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Nita, Małgorzata ^a   Grzybowski, Andrzej ^b,c  

^a Domestic and Specialized Medicine Centre 'Dilmed'   (Poland)

^b Poznan City Hospital   (Poland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARMIA AND MAZURY IN OLSZTYN   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL DEATH; CELLS; CYTOLOGY; EYE PROTECTION; OPHTHALMOLOGY; PATHOLOGY;

AGE-RELATED MACULAR DEGENERATION; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; HEREDITARY OPTIC NEUROPATHY; OPTIC NEUROPATHIES; PHYSIOLOGICAL CONDITION; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; TRABECULAR MESHWORKS;

ENDOTHELIAL CELLS;

ANTIOXIDANT; COLLAGEN TYPE 15; COLLAGEN TYPE 18; COPPER ZINC SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; ENDOSTATIN; EXTRACELLULAR SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; FERRITIN; GLUTATHIONE; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; GLUTATHIONE REDUCTASE; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; HEME OXYGENASE 1; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; HYDROXYL RADICAL; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; LIPID PEROXIDE; MANGANESE SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; NUCLEIC ACID; PEROXIREDOXIN; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; SCAVENGER; SINGLET OXYGEN; SIRTUIN 6; SUPEROXIDE; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; THIOREDOXIN REDUCTASE 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NRF2; VASCULOTROPIN;

ADULT; AGE RELATED MACULAR DEGENERATION; AGE RELATED OCULAR DISEASE; AGING; ANGIOGENESIS; ANTERIOR EYE SEGMENT; APOPTOSIS; CATARACT; CATARACTOGENESIS; CONGENITAL CORNEA DYSTROPHY; CORNEA DYSTROPHY; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; DISEASE COURSE; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; EYE DISEASE; GLAUCOMA; GLIA CELL; GRANULAR CORNEAL DYSTROPHY TYPE 2; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HYPERGLYCEMIA; KERATOCONUS; LEBER HEREDITARY OPTIC NEUROPATHY; NERVE CELL; NERVE DEGENERATION; NONHUMAN; OPTIC NERVE; OPTIC NERVE ATROPHY; OPTIC NERVE DISEASE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PATHOGENESIS; PERIPHERAL OCCLUSIVE ARTERY DISEASE; POSTERIOR EYE SEGMENT; RETINA GANGLION CELL; RETINA NERVE CELL; REVIEW; TRABECULAR MESHWORK; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT; EYE; INFLAMMATION; LENS; MACULAR DEGENERATION; METABOLISM; MITOCHONDRION; PATHOLOGY;

ADULT; ANTIOXIDANTS; APOPTOSIS; CORNEAL DYSTROPHIES, HEREDITARY; EYE; EYE DISEASES; FUCHS' ENDOTHELIAL DYSTROPHY; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; KERATOCONUS; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MITOCHONDRIA; OXIDATIVE STRESS; POSTERIOR EYE SEGMENT; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES;

EID: 84962786789     PISSN: 19420900     EISSN: 19420994     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2016/3164734     Document Type: Review

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