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Cytochrome C: A Potential Early Biomarker Of Diabetic Retinopathy, Ileana G. Villarreal
Cytochrome C: A Potential Early Biomarker Of Diabetic Retinopathy, Ileana G. Villarreal
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Diabetic retinopathy is an ocular disease which appears in patients who experience progression of diabetes mellitus over a continuous period of time. Oftentimes, patients remain undiagnosed through the first stages of diabetic retinopathy due to the fact that there is not a specific way to determine when a patient develops the disease. Ophthalmologists and other eye specialists diagnose a patient with diabetic retinopathy once the patient begins to show progressed symptoms of the disease. Previous experiments have been performed to increase our knowledge of diabetic retinopathy and early biomarkers of the disease. Several studies have determined the effects of diabetic …