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. 2024 Jul 25:130:155522.
doi: 10.1016/j.phymed.2024.155522. Epub 2024 Mar 16.

Natural products for the treatment of age-related macular degeneration

Dongyue Wang  1 , Yi Chen  1 , Jiakun Li  2 , Erman Wu  3 , Tong Tang  3 , Rajeev K Singla  4 , Bairong Shen  5 , Ming Zhang  6
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Natural products for the treatment of age-related macular degeneration

Dongyue Wang et al. Phytomedicine. .
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Abstract

Background: Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a chronic retinal disease that significantly influences the vision of the elderly.

Purpose: There is no effective treatment and prevention method. The pathogenic process behind AMD is complex, including oxidative stress, inflammation, and neovascularization. It has been demonstrated that several natural products can be used to manage AMD, but systematic summaries are lacking.

Study design and methods: PubMed, Web of Science, and ClinicalTrials.gov were searched using the keywords "Biological Products" AND "Macular Degeneration" for studies published within the last decade until May 2023 to summarize the latest findings on the prevention and treatment of age-related macular degeneration through the herbal medicines and functional foods.

Results: The eligible studies were screened, and the relevant information about the therapeutic action and mechanism of natural products used to treat AMD was extracted. Our findings demonstrate that natural substances, including retinol, phenols, and other natural products, prevent the development of new blood vessels and protect the retina from oxidative stress in cells and animal models. However, they have barely been examined in clinical studies.

Conclusion: Natural products could be highly prospective candidate drugs used to treat AMD, and further preclinical and clinical research is required to validate it to control the disease.

Keywords: Age-related macular degeneration; Mechanism; Natural products; Oxidative stress, Aging; Plants; Toxicology.

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Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

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