Sentences with phrase «eye degeneration within»

Unfortunately, 40 percent of dogs diagnosed with glaucoma suffer blindness and eye degeneration within the first year.

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We seek to determine whether a particular type of imaging, known as «polarization - sensitive» imaging, is capable of reporting on the integrity of sub-microscopic structures within optic nerve fibers at an early stage of damage from glaucoma, preceding their complete degeneration and loss from the eye.

We seek in this proposal to determine whether a particular type of imaging is capable of assessing and reporting on the integrity of sub-microscopic structures within optic nerve fibers at an early stage of damage preceding their complete degeneration and loss from the eye.

The goals of this project are (i) to improve a mouse model of macular degeneration, and (ii) to test a genetically modified virus that can control inflammation within the eye of this mouse model.

In dogs affected with PLL ultrastructural abnormalities of the zonular fibers are already evident at 20 months of age [120] long before the lens luxation that typically occurs when the dogs are 3 to 8 years old, as a result of degeneration and breakdown of the zonules which cause the lens to be displaced from its normal position within the eye [121 — 124].