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1Schepens Eye Research Institute, Boston, MA 02114, USA. andrew.taylor@schepens.harvard.edu
Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
|January 12, 2011
Abstract:
There is an important role for α-MSH and the melanocortin receptors in ocular immunity, development and health. This chapter will cover what is known about how α-MSH is part of the mechanisms of ocular immune privilege, about the expression of melanocortin receptors and the implications of these findings on the role of α-MSH in ocular physiology and its potential use to treat ocular pathologies.

