Sentences with phrase «called ciliary»

Cells inside the eye behind the iris, called the ciliary body epithelium, continuously make the fluid («aqueous humor») that fills the front portion of the eye.

Another surgical option is called ciliary body endolaser photoablation, which decreases the amount of fluid produced inside the eye.

We undertook, a couple of years ago, a phase one trial for one such neuro enhancing therapeutic called ciliary neurotrophic factor or CNTF.

In addition to differentiated retinal cells, the amphibian eye contains a population of self - renewing retinal stem cells located in the retinal periphery in a region called the ciliary marginal zone or CMZ.

«Scientifically, she worked on a project that not only revealed an important role for a specific growth factor (VEGF) in the physiology of an ocular structure called the ciliary body but she also demonstrated that there might be unexpected and undesired side effects from a widely used treatment for a variety of ocular diseases.

The immune cells appear to travel to the lens via a web of ligaments that suspends the lens and connects it to the surrounding muscle tissue called the ciliary body, rich with immune - cell - carrying blood vessels.

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In a normal eye, fluid is constantly produced by the ciliary body and drained out the iridocorneal angle (also called the drainage angle).

Introduction: Primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD), previously called immotile cilia syndrome (ICS), is a divers group of inherited structural and functional abnormalities affecting the cilia of the respiratory tract mucosa and other organs which results mainly in recurrent respiratory tract infections.

Iris cysts can «pinch off» and become free - floating little brown balloons inside the anterior chamber, or they can remain attached to the ciliary body and iris; the latter type are called iridociliary cysts and these are the typical form of cysts present in dogs with GRPU.