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Resveratrol and Glaucoma

When the optic nerve in your eyes is damaged, you get Glaucoma, an ocular disease that progressively dims your vision irreversibly. The nerve damage centers on the loss of the retinal ganglion cells. Elevated intraocular pressure or ocular hypertension increases the risk for getting glaucoma.

This elevated condition can be lowered using suitably formulated eye drops and there have been promising research in harnessing the neuroprotective action of certain topical and systemic substances in treating Glaucoma. Resveratrol is one of them.

The red wine polyphenol phytochemical Resveratrol found in red wine, grape skins, peanuts, berries and in about 70 other plant species have been extolled for its potential versatile health and therapeutic benefits. Until it undergoes clinical human trials, these benefits remain promises though various independent research studies have confirmed its anti-aging, anti-inflammatory, anti-oxidative and anti-carcinogenic properties in laboratory animals.

Research Findings: Resveratrol vs Claucoma

Elevated intraocular pressure (IOP) is believed to be caused by increased aqueous humor outflow resistance at the trabecular meshwork/Schlemm resulting in primary open-angle glaucoma.

A study conducted by researchers at the University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina has shown that Resveratrol exerted anti-apoptotic effects that potentially have a role in preventing trabecular meshwork tissue abnormalities observed in glaucoma. Current treatments hinge on lowering IOP but do not delay the loss of trabecular meshwork tissue function in glaucoma patients.

It appears that Resveratrol’s anti-inflammatory, anti-oxidative and cellular senescence in primary trabecular meshwork cells that were subjected to oxidative stress and damage account for its efficacy in treating glaucoma.

While results like this is promising, additional research studies are needed to independently confirm and corroborate the results and pave the way for subsequent clinical trials on human patients. If the results are repeatable, Resveratrol promises new treatment strategies in arresting glaucoma patient that face inevitable and irreversible progressive loss of vision.

By Admin, Resveratrols.org

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