Neuroprotective Effect of Intravitreal Single-Dose Lithium Chloride after Optic Nerve Injury in Rats.

CONCLUSION: It seems intravitreally lithium has optic nerve neuroprotective effects by various mechanisms like overexpression of antiapoptotic proteins, suppressing proinflammatory molecules and proapoptotic factors, and decreasing nitric oxide. PMID: 32885675 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Source: Current Eye Research - September 3, 2020 Category: Opthalmology Authors: Ala M, Mohammad Jafari R, Nematian H, Ganjedanesh MR, Naderi A, Akbariani M, Sanatkar M, Satarian L, Aghsaei Fard M, Dehpour AR Tags: Curr Eye Res Source Type: research