Abstract
Current understanding of the role of oxidative stress in ocular inflammatory diseases indicates that antioxidant therapy may be important to optimize the treatment. Recently investigated antioxidant therapies for ocular inflammatory diseases include various vitamins, plant products and reactive oxygen species scavengers. Oxidative stress plays a causative role in both non-infectious and infectious uveitis complications, and novel strategies to diminish tissue damage and dysfunction with antioxidant therapy may ameliorate visual complications. Preclinical studies with experimental animals and cultured cells demonstrate significant anti-inflammatory effects of a number of promising antioxidant agents. Many of these antioxidants are under clinical trial for various inflammatory diseases other than uveitis such as cardiovascular, rheumatoid arthritis and cancer. Well planned interventional clinical studies in the filed of ocular inflammation will be necessary to sufficiently investigate the potential medical benefits of antioxidant therapies for uveitis. This review summarizes the recent investigations of novel antioxidant agents for ocular inflammation, with selected studies focused on uveitis.
Keywords: Antioxidants, eye, ocular inflammation, oxidative stress, uveitis, tissue damage, immune system, cancer
Current Medicinal Chemistry
Title: Emerging Role of Antioxidants in the Protection of Uveitis Complications
Volume: 18 Issue: 6
Author(s): U. C.S. Yadav, N. M. Kalariya and K. V. Ramana
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Keywords: Antioxidants, eye, ocular inflammation, oxidative stress, uveitis, tissue damage, immune system, cancer
Abstract: Current understanding of the role of oxidative stress in ocular inflammatory diseases indicates that antioxidant therapy may be important to optimize the treatment. Recently investigated antioxidant therapies for ocular inflammatory diseases include various vitamins, plant products and reactive oxygen species scavengers. Oxidative stress plays a causative role in both non-infectious and infectious uveitis complications, and novel strategies to diminish tissue damage and dysfunction with antioxidant therapy may ameliorate visual complications. Preclinical studies with experimental animals and cultured cells demonstrate significant anti-inflammatory effects of a number of promising antioxidant agents. Many of these antioxidants are under clinical trial for various inflammatory diseases other than uveitis such as cardiovascular, rheumatoid arthritis and cancer. Well planned interventional clinical studies in the filed of ocular inflammation will be necessary to sufficiently investigate the potential medical benefits of antioxidant therapies for uveitis. This review summarizes the recent investigations of novel antioxidant agents for ocular inflammation, with selected studies focused on uveitis.
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C.S. Yadav U., M. Kalariya N. and V. Ramana K., Emerging Role of Antioxidants in the Protection of Uveitis Complications, Current Medicinal Chemistry 2011; 18 (6) . https://dx.doi.org/10.2174/092986711794927694
DOI https://dx.doi.org/10.2174/092986711794927694 |
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