Dual-drug combination shows promise against diabetic eye disease in animal model

[Northerner]

A two-drug cocktail provided better protection against diabetes-related vision loss than a single drug during testing in rat models, a team of University of Florida Health and Dutch researchers has found.

Researchers say the drug combination is a promising and unique potential treatment for patients with diabetic retinopathy, a major cause of vision loss in middle-age diabetes patients. Diabetic retinopathy damages blood vessels in the retina at the back of the eye, leading to distorted vision or blindness. There were 4.2 million cases of diabetic retinopathy among people ages 40 and over in the United States, according to a 2016 estimate by the American Academy of Ophthalmology.

Now, researchers from UF and the Erasmus Medical Center in the Netherlands have shown that the two drugs were more effective than a single drug at reducing the symptoms of diabetic retinopathy within the animals' retinas. The findings were published recently in the journal Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/02/170216104019.htm

What I want to know is who are these King Rats who manage to get all this important research redirected to help their own species? 😉

 

[mikeyB]

It will never be used in humans, because if they trial it, everyone will get chronic constipation with the anti diarrhoeal element. Rats aren't able to say "Me Bowels are giving me gyp".

 

[trophywench]

LOL Mike! Of course, they'd prescribe another drug, be it only lowly Senna, to counteract that. Compared to losing my sight - I rather think that I, like Barkis in David Copperfield, would be willing !