Correlations Between MMPs and TIMPs Levels in Aqueous Humor from High Myopia and Cataract Patients

Abstract

Compared to the present findings with the relationship of MMPs and TIMPs in other fields of medicine, our results are consistent with the homeostasis hypothesis that the increase of TIMPs serves as a compensation reaction to inhibit the excessive degradation caused by the increase of MMPs and limits the development of myopia.