Open AccessImmunogenetics of ocular inflammatory disease
Author(s) -
Levinson R. D.
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
tissue antigens
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1399-0039
pISSN - 0001-2815
DOI - 10.1111/j.1399-0039.2006.00743.x
Subject(s) - disease , medicine , blindness , inflammation , immunogenetics , immunology , loss function , pathology , optometry , biology , genetics , antibody , phenotype , gene
Ocular inflammatory disease comprises of a diverse group of clinical entities that may result from autoimmune processes, infections, or both. While many individual ocular inflammatory diseases are quite rare, ocular inflammation is one of the more common causes of visual disability, including blindness, in the developed world. Better understanding of ocular inflammatory disease is an important step in designing more sophisticated therapies that may help prevent loss of visual function for these patients.