Sentences with phrase «after optic nerve»
There's no retinal ganglion cell regeneration or replacement after optic nerve injury.
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It turns out that after optic nerve injury the mitochondria decay very rapidly.
They discovered that zinc is released from cells within an hour after the optic nerve is injured acutely — but they were surprised to find that it didn't come from retinal ganglion cells.
Not exact matches
A day later, I had an MRI scan of my brain, and two days after that I was informed that I had several lesions on an optic nerve behind my right eye which required IV steroid treatment.
Subject also suffers apparent optic nerve damage from SXSW - hottie - ogling (one can't look too long at the sun without consequences, after all).
And in transgenic pups whose optic nerves were surgically severed 4 days after birth, retinal axons grew around the gap, finding their way to the proper target areas in the brain.
A healthy optic nerve has axons transmitting information from the eye to the brain along the nerve after considerable information processing and synaptic transmission between various cell types within the retina.
«There has always been this question of whether optic nerve hypoplasia occurred during development or if the visual system degenerated after the normal course of development.
What they determined after further tests, however, was that she had multiple sclerosis, an autoimmune disease that affects the brain and central nervous system and was causing optic neuritis, an inflammation of the optic nerve that can cause a partial or complete loss of vision.
We have preliminary evidence that this is also true in the retina after damage to the optic nerve.
These described early changes in glaucoma associated with the neurochemistry of the retina and optic nerve and the persistence of retinal neurons long after those changes occur.
One study assessed the effectiveness of boosting BDNF levels in the eye after the test subject had suffered an optic nerve crush.
As of right now, my dog has no aura before the event and acts fine both during and after the episode, so I can only assume that it's something going on specifically in the occipital lobe of the brain or the optic nerve.
Meanwhile, some 30 percent of all babies infected in utero with Zika show eye conditions such as inflammation of the optic nerve, retinal damage or blindness after birth.