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Researchers at Wakayama Medical University, Department of Ophthalmology release new data on gene therapy

Published in Gene Therapy Weekly, November 29th, 2007

Fresh data on gene are presented in the report 'Emodin suppression of ocular surface inflammatory reaction.' In this recently published article, scientists in Wakayama, Japan conducted a study "To determine whether a Chinese herbal medicine component, emodin, suppresses inflammatory/fibrogenic reaction in cultured subconjunctival fibroblasts and reduces injury-induced increases in ocular surface inflammation in mice Effects of emodin were measured in human subconjunctival fibroblasts on proliferation and migration with colorimetry and scratch wound assay, respectively. Neovascularization was evaluated using an endothelial cell-fibroblast coculture model."

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