No.193 Seminar ： “Development of treatments for intractable ocular diseases”
- Associate Professor Hanako IKEDA (Hakubi 10th batch, Kyoto University Hospital)
- 2021/03/23 4:30pm
- Zoom (Closed)
- Mostly Japanese
Summary
Vision acts as a source of 80-90% of information perceived from the outside world, and blindness severely deteriorates the quality of life. Currently, the causative diseases of blindness in Japan are glaucoma, retinitis pigmentosa, diabetic retinopathy, macular degeneration, and choroidal atrophy. These diseases cause decreased visual function due to degeneration and loss of retinal neuronal cells. Although most treatments for glaucoma lower the intraocular pressure, there are many blind patients even after treatment, and there is no cure for retinitis pigmentosa or choroidal atrophy. I have been studying new treatments that prevent disease progression by protecting retinal neural cells, and would like to discuss the results of this basic and clinical research on cell protection strategies by retaining intracellular energy.