Scientists have found non-surgical method of treating cataract Bashny.Net

The medical community describes a cataract as a darkening of the lens of the eye. This physical condition can cause various disorders of vision, until its complete loss. People who have cataracts often say about the reduction of visual acuity, dull colors of the surrounding world, problems with sight in the dark and the appearance of bright halos in sight.

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For decades one of the main methods of cataract treatment was a special medical operation. Now, however, doctors say that found a new and less invasive way to deal with this disease. And soon this may become available in health facilities.

Recently published in the scientific journal Nature article reports the results of the work of a group of scientists that are part of a series of experiments on dogs found that cataract may yield to treatment special eye drops. These drops contain a chemical component lanosterol. These molecules are naturally produced inside the body. In healthy individuals lanosterol does not allow proteins to form in the lens of the eye protein clumps that lead to cataract.

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Specialist Kang Zhang, University of California, San Diego and his colleagues on the study to say that as a result of experiments, they found that people who have had cataracts that severely reduced the availability of molecules lanosterol in their body. This led scientists to the idea that eye drops containing the desired proportion of lanosterol may be one of the alternative methods of treatment of this disease. As soon as eye drops have been created, the researchers tested them on dogs. Drops really showed its effectiveness.

In the journal Nature reported that the drops took just 6 weeks in order to reduce clouding of the eye lens in animals and in General to reduce the size of cataracts. Similar tests, the researchers decided to spend on the eye lenses of rabbits that were grown in a lab. The results were successful as well.

Frankly, surgery is always accompanied by a certain degree of risk of failure and subsequent complications. For this reason, Dr. Kang Zhang and his team of scientists believe that the majority of patients with cataracts, most likely, of course, choose eye drops instead of surgery if they have the chance.

"Our study showed that lanosterol is a key component of protection against the formation of protein plaques in the lens of the eye and may serve as completely new resources for prevention and treatment of cataract," say the scientists in describing their work. published 

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