IL-18 is not therapeutic for neovascular age-related macular degeneration

Yoshio Hirano; Tetsuhiro Yasuma; Takeshi Mizutani; Benjamin J. Fowler; Valeria Tarallo; Reo Yasuma; Younghee Kim; Ana Bastos-Carvalho; Nagaraj Kerur; Bradley D. Gelfand; Sasha Bogdanovich; Shikun He; Xiaohui Zhang; Miho Nozaki; Ryo Ijima; Hiroki Kaneko; Yuichiro Ogura; Hiroko Terasaki; Hiroshi Nagai; Isao Haro; Gabriel Núfez; Balamurali K. Ambati; David R. Hinton; Jayakrishna Ambati

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IL-18 is not therapeutic for neovascular age-related macular degeneration

Yoshio Hirano, Tetsuhiro Yasuma, Takeshi Mizutani, Benjamin J. Fowler, Valeria Tarallo, Reo Yasuma, Younghee Kim, Ana Bastos-Carvalho, Nagaraj Kerur, Bradley D. Gelfand, Sasha Bogdanovich, Shikun He, Xiaohui Zhang, Miho Nozaki, Ryo Ijima, Hiroki Kaneko, Yuichiro Ogura, Hiroko Terasaki, Hiroshi Nagai, Isao HaroGabriel Núfez, Balamurali K. Ambati, David R. Hinton, Jayakrishna Ambati

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Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1372-1375
Number of pages	4
Journal	Nature Medicine
Volume	20
Issue number	12
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/nm.3671
State	Published - Dec 1 2014

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Hirano, Y., Yasuma, T., Mizutani, T., Fowler, B. J., Tarallo, V., Yasuma, R., Kim, Y., Bastos-Carvalho, A., Kerur, N., Gelfand, B. D., Bogdanovich, S., He, S., Zhang, X., Nozaki, M., Ijima, R., Kaneko, H., Ogura, Y., Terasaki, H., Nagai, H., ... Ambati, J. (2014). IL-18 is not therapeutic for neovascular age-related macular degeneration. Nature Medicine, 20(12), 1372-1375. https://doi.org/10.1038/nm.3671

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