Biofabrication of choroid-retina tissue construct for modelling of age-related macular degeneration disease

• Main Author: Tan, Edgar Yong Sheng
• Other Authors: Yeong Wai Yee
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Engineering::Mechanical engineering
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/105573; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/50152
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Age-Related Macular Degeneration (AMD) is a major cause of blindness affecting everyone above the age of fifty. The main pathological effect is the uncontrolled growth of blood vessel below the retina layer which results in neovascularisation and leaked fluid within the Bruch’s Membrane. Till date,...