SMOKING AGGRAVATES NEOVASCULAR AGE-RELATED MACULAR DEGENERATION VIA SEMA4D-PLEXINB1 AXIS-MEDIATED ACTIVATION OF PERICYTES

Smoking aggravates neovascular age-related macular degeneration via Sema4D-PlexinB1 axis-mediated activation of pericytes

Abstract Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a prevalent neuroinflammation condition and the leading cause of irreversible blindness among the elderly population.Smoking significantly increases AMD risk, yet the mechanisms remain unclear.Here, we investigate the role of Sema4D-PlexinB1 axis in the progression of AMD, in which Sema4D-PlexinB1

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Management of Speed: The Low-Cost, Rapidly Implementable Effective Road Safety Action to Deliver the 2020 Road Safety Targets

Delivery of road safety is an urgent global priority, as recognised by key events over recent years.The establishment of the United Nations (UN) Decade of Action for Road Safety and the subsequent development of the UN Global Plan for the Decade of Action for Road Safety 2011-2020 (UNRSC, 2011) provided global impetus to focus on eliminating the pa

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Technical Error Factors On Panoramic Radiographic Examination At The Radiology Installation Of Unjani Dental and Mouth Hospital

Panoramic is a three-dimensional curved zone where anatomical structures are well defined on panoramic radiography.Panoramic radiography includes a detailed anatomy Gravel of the jaw complex with some superimpositions and distortions that can be exacerbated by technical errors in image acquisition as well as many extra-jaw anatomical structures tha

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