糖尿病视网膜病变(diabetic retinopathy,DR)是最常见的糖尿病微血管并发症之一,然而其具体机制尚不清楚。现在炎症反应作为DR发病机制之一而被越来越多的学者关注,并提出DR是一种炎症性疾病。我们就炎症因子IL-8的特征及其在DR发生发展过程中的作用加以综述。

Diabetic retinopathy(DR) is one of the frequent chronic microvascular complications associated with diabetes mellitus, and it is a leading cause of blindness, but the specific mechanism of DR is not very clear. Now inflammatory reaction as one of the pathogeneses of DR has become the main concern for a growing number of scholars. In the following sections, we will review the function of IL-8 as a inflammatory factor in DR.

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