Shave hoofs or toes, a mop or a mane, an autoimmune uveitis can also take the view.
A remedy for this form of common blindness among horses, but also people, now undergoes tests that can benefit both.
An interdisciplinary team of UNIV. From the Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine and College of Medicine – Ophthalmology, A Published results On a medicine too much to treat uveitis, a main cause of blindness in both species.
The disease represents 10% of the new blindness and visual handicaps in the United States each year; affecting around 30,000 people.
Named for the UVEA, the intermediate layer of the eye, and “itis”, the suffix which denotes inflammation, the loss of sight occurs when the structures of the eye decompose from the disease and the light to the retina is blocked.
If it is captured early, medicine can prevent uveitis from causing a loss of vision, but in more advanced cases, damage is often already caused and possible irreversible effects.
“It turns out that the place where drugs are to have its effect in the eye is the same in people and horses”, ” said Joseph Larkin, Associate Professor at UF / IFAS.
“We believe that if we are able to prove its effect in horses, we will also be able to treat disease in people. People become blind if they have this disease, so it definitely changes their quality of life permanently. »»
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Larkin’s eyes and its developed team contain a synthetic peptide that acts to block the inflammatory pathways that cause inflammation which leads to a degradation of the structures of the eye tissue in autoimmune uveitis in horses and humans.
Previous treatments have often been ineffective due to the trend of the condition to reproduce.
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Research has already been carried out using this therapy with a drop of eyes on blind or light horses at the UF / CVM, in which the horses were documented for having regained calm and composure during the exhibition to a lively light.
The next step will be a clinical trial in horses.
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