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 you can :egulate glaucoma. There are more than two,
 but two primary ones6 One is, since the defect is an
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 -excess pressure in the eye -- that's the ultimate
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 revelation of glaucoma or one of the revelations_=
 then one can slow down the tape as it were_ one can
 S slow down the rate of flow of fluid into the eye oz
 increase the rate of fluid out of the eye. _ mean
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 8 those are two basi_ phenomena that one can control.
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 And certainly in terms of things like
 |0 Timoptio, we're fairly sure even now -- and I_m not
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 hedging -_ hut even after this length of times we're
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 fairly sure that it affects in-flow. We know that
 _, 13 aqueous humor in-_low is cut down after Timoptic_ and
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 with_
 Epinephrine we're reasonable sure that it
 15 affects _ flow facillty_ that is_ the rate of
 16 movement out of the eye.
 17 So I think _or most of the drugs that we
 _8 currently use, yes_ we|re reasonably sure of how they
 19 work in the majority of patients_ when they work,
 20 when they are effective.
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