Glaucoma is a serious disease associated with increased intraocular pressure which often leads to blindness. One of the ways to treat glaucoma is to reduce aqueous humour secretion in the ciliary body ...

THE characteristic features of an ideal diuretic can easily be enumerated. In practice, however, a compound possessing all these desirable properties has yet to be found. Because of the multitudinous ...

A drug commonly used to treat glaucoma has been shown in zebrafish and mice to protect against the build-up in the brain of the protein tau, which causes various forms of dementia and is implicated in ...

Using computer modeling, chemists from MIPT and Skoltech (the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology) have found out which molecules may be present in the interiors of Uranus, Neptune, and the ...

But despite being ubiquitous, carbonic acid has been difficult to study as a pure substance because it readily dissociates into CO 2 and H 2 O. Researchers in the 1990s identified two crystalline ...

The most common process by which limestone caves form involves carbonic acid — or weakly acidic groundwater — as the primary agent. When carbonic acid contacts limestone, it dissolves minerals in the ...