Cataract: A major secondary diabetic complication

Authors

  • Piyush M Patel Assistant Professor Smt. R.B. Patel Mahila Pharmacy College Kailash Nagar, Bhavnagar-High Way Atkot-360 040, Rajkot Rajkot-Bhavanagr Highway Smt. R.B. Patel Mahila Pharmacy College Atkot-360 040, Gujarat
  • Nurudin Jivani Surendranagar-Ahmedabad Highway C.U. Shah College of Pharmacy and Research Wadhawan-363 030, Gujarat
  • Shailesh Malaviya Rajkot-Bhavanagr Highway Smt. R.B. Patel Mahila Pharmacy College Atkot-360 040, Gujarat
  • Tushar Gohil Rajkot-Bhavanagr Highway Smt. R.B. Patel Mahila Pharmacy College Atkot-360 040, Gujarat
  • Yagnik Bhalodia Surendranagar-Ahmedabad Highway C.U. Shah College of Pharmacy and Research Wadhawan-363 030, Gujarat

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3329/icpj.v1i7.10813

Keywords:

Cataract, aldose reductase, galactose, selenite, antioxidant

Abstract

Cataract is a visual impairment occurs due to the opacification of crystalline lens. It affects around 17 billion peoples worldwide, although incidence of cataracts is increasing day by day among the elderly persons. Still today except surgery no other effective treatment have been successfully developed so far, thus this present review is focused to highlights the etiological aspects, risk factors along with possible pharmacological prevention and animal models which are widely used for screening anticataract activity. The present review includes the list of plants and their phytoconstituents which have been evaluated pharmacologically for the treatment of cataract. From the review it can be concluded that antioxidant properties of plants phytochemicals are responsible for the anticataract activity.

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/icpj.v1i7.10813

International Current Pharmaceutical Journal 2012, 1(7): 180-185

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Published

2012-06-03

How to Cite

Patel, P. M., Jivani, N., Malaviya, S., Gohil, T., & Bhalodia, Y. (2012). Cataract: A major secondary diabetic complication. International Current Pharmaceutical Journal, 1(7), 180–185. https://doi.org/10.3329/icpj.v1i7.10813

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Vol. 1 No. 7 (2012)

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Review Articles

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