Sentences with phrase «eye cell death»
Osteonecrosis (bone cell death), retinal degeneration (eye cell death) & neural necrosis (brain cell death) are some of the examples.
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«We used a mouse model of the KPro to, first of all, identify the inflammatory factors that cause damage to the eye, and then we also quantified the amount of nerve cell death in the back of the eye that mediates the optic neuropathy, and, lastly, we looked at blocking these factors with antibodies,» said Reza Dana, M.D., M.Sc., MPH, Director of the Cornea and Refractive Surgery Service at Massachusetts Eye and Ear and the Claes H. Dohlman Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School.
These genes are more active in the young cave fish than in their sighted counterparts — an elevated level of activity that triggers cell death in the eye's lens.
Without this waste, that part of the eye «steals» glucose from the retina, leading to the death of retinal cells and likely vision loss.
Loss of sight in patients with glaucoma is caused by the death of cells in the retina at the back of the eye.
In clinical trials, the pioneering diagnostic — developed by researchers at University College London (UCL) and the Western Eye Hospital — allowed doctors to see individual nerve cell death in the back of the eye.
Glaucoma results from the death of retinal ganglion cells, specialized cells that transmit vision from the eye to the brain.
The fishes» oxygen release system became even more efficient over the ensuing 150 - 270 million years, when it was necessary to deliver large amounts to organs such as the eye — which requires very large O2 loads to function well and avoid vision cell death — and which was essential to seeing clearly under water, to hunt or avoid predators.
These include brain and joint abnormalities, eye oddities and the death of certain types of important brain cells.
On the surface, the disease appears relatively simple, with high pressure (intra-ocular pressure, or IOP) within the eye associated with the death of cells in the retina and optic nerve dysfunction.
A core pillar of research on the pathogenesis of eye diseases, like cataracts, glaucoma, and macular degeneration, has been on the role of mitochondrial dysfunction and death of retinal ganglion cells (RGCs).
Flashback to Domino as a little girl then forward to an interrogation conducted by Lucy Liu (the lighting is so ill - advised that nearly every close - up is a death's head of hollow eye sockets and weeping cheek bones) in what appears to be a bank vault, then to some point in - between as someone's arm is put up for collateral in a trailer park negotiation, then to a mob boss talking on a cell phone from the bottom of his swimming pool, and finally to Domino's lazy hardboiled voiceover — which brings the little girl back to punk rock.
In addition, two copies of the M allele large enough to produce the merle coat color are thought to cause the death of skin melanocytes, retinal pigment cells, and melanocytes of the inner ear which can result in significant white areas of the coat, eye abnormalities and deafness.
Though the comic book - style sequences are decently drawn, they constantly drag on by showing Marian's death over and over, Billy's distraught rage over losing her (again played out with hilariously awful voice acting), and other eye - rolling sequences such as remembering the time he bought her a necklace or recovering her stolen cell - phone (with a bullet hole right on the screen showing another photo of the couple).