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1Glaucoma Center of Excellence, Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Wilmer 122, 600 N Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD, 21287, USA. hquigley@jhmi.edu.
Methods in Molecular Biology (Clifton, N.J.)
|December 1, 2017
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This chapter provides an overview over the use of animal models in glaucoma research from a historical perspective. Strengths and limitations of various models are considered, and the challenges of translating results in animal experiments to successful clinical trials in humans are discussed.
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