[There is considerable evidence that the VEGF system in disturbed early in diabetes and interacts with other pathways and vasoactive factors to stimulate breakdown of the blood retinal barrier (BRB) and eventually promote angiogenesis, the hallmark feature of proliferative diabetic retinopathy (PDR).]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature.
DisGeNET evidence - LITERATURE