New Pharmacological Approaches for the Treatment of Neurotrophic Keratitis

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Neurotrophic keratitis (NK) is a rare degenerative condition that is caused by damage to the trigeminal nerve, with partial or complete loss of corneal sensory innervation. The loss of innervation leads to impaired healing of corneal epithelium, which subsequently results in punctate epithelial erosions, persistent epithelial defects, corneal ulcers and corneal perforation. Management of NK is often supportive and aims to promote epithelial healing and prevent progression of disease. Multiple novel pharmacological approaches have been proposed to address the underlying pathophysiology of NK, which are discussed in this paper.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:13

Enthalten in:

Frontiers in pharmacology - 13(2022) vom: 31., Seite 796854

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Koay, Su Yin [VerfasserIn]
Larkin, Daniel F P [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Corneal ulcer
Journal Article
Nerve growth factor
Neurotization
Neurotrophic keratitis
Persistent epithelial defect
Review

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Date Revised 09.04.2022

published: Electronic-eCollection

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.3389/fphar.2022.796854

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM339222727