Successfully raising mice with glaucoma

Japanese scientists have successfully raised mice with blinded glaucoma (glaucoma).

The continuous experiment and research on this type of mouse will help scientists learn about the mechanism of glaucoma development and study the types of help to treat this disease.

Scientists at Hokkaido University said that they have adopted a gene recombination technology to successfully cultivate mice infected with glaucoma. There are no two types of Vav2 and Vav3 in this body of mice.

Genes Vav2 and Vav3 usually exist in the cornea and iris of the eye. Without this gene, the pressure in the eyeball of the mouse will naturally increase with the growth of the body, and after 10 weeks of birth, their eyeball pressure is 1.5 times more than normal mice. .

Previously, although scientists have found many genes related to glaucoma, it has not yet successfully cultured animals with natural elevated eyeball pressure and glaucoma.

Scientists say this newly cultured mouse could be used for experiments to study the mechanism of glaucoma development and help prepare drugs to treat glaucoma.