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T cells in glaucoma patients may have an altered pattern
BALTIMORE — Researchers proposed that the body’s self-defense mechanisms may be abnormally activated in glaucoma, resulting in an attack on the nerve cells, according to a presentation at the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology annual meeting.“We hope that this alteration detected in glaucoma patients may serve as a biomarker in the future,” Gulgun Tezel, MD, professor at the Columbia University Department of Ophthalmology, said in an interview with Healio.com/OSN. “Due to the various etiological differences in patients with glaucoma, it may not be a single biomarker but multiple (Read more...)