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- Title
Rediscovering Old Drug: Atropine.
- Authors
Shahsuvaryan, Marianne L.
- Abstract
Background: Atropine is the most commonly used pharmacologic agent as a cycloplegic and a mydriatic. Recently Atropine eye drops have been shown to be effective in slowing the progression of myopia, acting not by eliminating accommodation, but by anti-muscarinic receptor binding that causes a local retinal biochemical change which slow eye growth. Based on currently available findings the new properties of Atropine and new avenue of intervention in myopia are being explored.
- Subjects
ATROPINE; MYOPIA treatment; MUSCARINIC antagonists; MYDRIATICS; DISEASE progression; THERAPEUTICS
- Publication
Ophthalmology Update, 2017, Vol 15, Issue 2, p45
- ISSN
1993-2863
- Publication type
Article