Is glaucoma an autoimmune disease?

Abstract There is increasing evidence from animal and human studies that glaucoma is an autoimmune disease. Evidence for this hypothesis includes the fact that antibodies as well as T‐cell responses to heat‐shock proteins (HSPs) are detectable in some patients with glaucoma and in an animal model of...

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Main Authors: Denis Wakefield, Gerhild Wildner
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2020-01-01
Series:Clinical & Translational Immunology
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1002/cti2.1180