Corticosteroid-Encapsulated Nanoparticles in Thermoreversible Gels for the Amelioration of Choroidal Neovascularization in Age-Related Macular Degeneration

Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is one of the leading causes of blindness in adults over the age of 60. Currently, at least 11 million patients in the United States have some form of macular degeneration and this number is projected to grow as the population ages. The more severe form of the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hirani, Anjali A.
Other Authors: Biomedical Engineering
Format: Others
Published: Virginia Tech 2016
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/73318