Sentences with phrase «called macular»
A proprietary combination of ingredients, called Lutemax 2020, has published research showing these so - called macular carotenoids can help.
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For example, a consortium of research groups called the London Project to Cure Blindness aims to test RPE transplants from embryonic stem cells in patients with macular degeneration this year.
Advanced Cell Technology, based in Santa Monica California, is developing embryonic stem cell therapies for macular degeneration and other conditions using cells obtained non-destructively from an early embryo called a blastocyst.
Eye diseases — such as age - related macular degeneration, as well as a genetic condition called Stargardt's macular dystrophy that afflicts young people — are considered excellent candidates for stem cell therapy because the eye is an immune - privileged site, meaning transplanted cells are not as likely to be rejected as foreign compared with transplants elsewhere.
In July Genentech announced that the drug Lucentis stabilized or even improved vision in a yearlong clinical trial of patients with so - called wet macular degeneration, a form that involves overgrowth of blood vessels.
A PATCH implanted at the back of the eye has improved or stabilised sight in four people with a condition called age - related macular degeneration.
The vascular phase of macular degeneration is sometimes called «wet» macular degeneration.
In particular, widespread ocular diseases such as age - related macular degeneration (AMD) and retinitis pigmentosa (RP), as well as a genetic condition called Stargardt's macular dystrophy (STGD) that afflicts young people, are all potential disease targets for therapeutic approaches.
Age - related macular degeneration (AMD) is an irreversible destruction of the central area of the retina, called the macula.
In dry macular degeneration, the most common form of this eye disease, yellowish cellular deposits called drusen (extracellular waste products from metabolism) form under the retina.
Paulaitis says «the novel concepts put forth in this study, of investigating small molecules called microRNAs to see what they can tell us about mitochondria disorders in cells of the retina, hold great promise of providing new insights into how age - related macular degeneration develops, after which new treatments can be designed to save or improve vision.»
Doctors call the early stages of macular degeneration «low vision.»
Kale contains compounds called glucosinolates that may help prevent cancer, plus lutein and zeaxanthin, which are related to vitamin A and may help lower your risk of developing cataracts and macular degeneration.
A lifelong reader who grew up in a home in industrial South Wales with few books, Mary calls her iPad her «best friend» and reflects how before the digital age her reading life would have been cut short by macular degeneration.