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| Advances in the Prevention of Cataract by Caffeine |
| Yuan Tan1, Min Zhang2, Yingzhe Pan2, Yaqiong Zhang2, Hui Liu2, Yuan Liu2 |
| 1Department of Ophthalmology, Ezhou Central Hospital, Ezhou 436000, China
2Department of Ophthalmology, Xiangyang First People's Hospital Affiliated Hospital of Hubei University of Medicine, Xiangyang 441000, China |
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Abstract Caffeine, the common term for 1, 3, 7-trimethylxanthine, is an alkaloid. It is widely studied in the fields of neurology, internal medicine, pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology. In recent years, there has also been some new understanding of caffeine in the field of ophthalmology. Cataract is the leading cause of blindness in humans, so the prevention and treatment of cataract is extremely significant. Currently, surgery is the only treatmen. Some research has revealed that caffeine can prevent cataract by anti-oxidation and
inhibition of apoptosis. Therefore, the relationship between caffeine and cataract is worth discussing. This review puts emphasis on the research progress of the mechanism of caffeine in the prevention of cataract in an effort to provide insights for the therapeutic approach to cataract.
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Received: 10 October 2020
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| Fund: Postgraduates Program of Scientific and Technological Innovation of Hubei University of Medicine in 2020 (YC2020024); Science and Technology Plan Project of Xiangyang (2020YL40) |
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Corresponding Authors:
Min Zhang, Department of Ophthalmology, Xiangyang First People' s Hospital Affiliated Hospital of Hubei University of Medicine, Xiangyang 441000, China (Email: zhangm_2019 @163.com)
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