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Focusing on emerging areas in ocular research, from new approaches to dry eye to gene therapy in the management of retinal diseases, this comprehensive reference provides new information on ocular therapeutics vital to eye researchers and opthalmologists.

Table of Contents

Section I - General Principles and Therapeutic Targets
Chapter 1: The Eye as Drug Target: Overview
Chapter 2: Drug Delivery Systems in Ophthalmic Applications
Chapter 3: IOP as a Target - Inflow and Outflow Pathways
Chapter 4: The ciliary body: a potential multifaceted functional neuroendocrine unit.
Chapter 5: Growth Factors and Neurotrophic Factors as Targets

Section II. Visual Pathway
Chapter 6: New therapies for Dry Eye Disease
Chapter 7: Refractive Surgery: Corneal Opacity (haze) after Surface Ablation
Chapter 8: Progress in Preventing Age-Related Cataract
Chapter 9: Myopia Pharmacology: Etiologic Clues, Therapeutic Potential

Section III. Inflammation, Immune System and Anti-infectives
Chapter 10: Immune system and the eye
Chapter 11: Ocular Allergy: Clinical, Therapeutic and Drug Discovery Considerations
Chapter 12: Ocular Inflammation in Anterior Segment
Chapter 13: Posterior Segment uveitis
Chapter 14: New Anti-Infectives for Ophthalmology

Section IV. Clinical Therapeutics
Chapter 15: Tissue Repair and Regeneration
Chapter 16: Therapeutic Drugs for Anterior Segment Ocular Surgery
Chapter 17: Therapeutic Drugs for Posterior Segment Vitrectomy Surgery
Chapter 18: Progress and Prospects in Ocular Gene Therapy

Section V. Retinal Diseases and Neuropathies
Chapter 19: Neuroprotection in Glaucoma
Chapter 20: Degenerative Retinopathies
Chapter 22: Ocular Angiogenesis