A protein fragment that litters the brains of people with Alzheimer’s disease may also bear responsibility for some of the vision loss in glaucoma, a new study in rats shows.
DEAD EYE. White specks are dying nerve cells in retinas of rats with glaucoma. The retina at bottom was treated with three drugs that inhibit amyloid-beta production.
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