Sentences with phrase «ganglion cell components»

The third promising biomarker involves imaging of the inner retina, including vascular, nerve fiber and ganglion cell components.

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In 1963 Pietro Angeletti and one of us (Levi Montalcini), who were then at the Istituto Superiore di Sanità in Rome, dissected sensory and sympathetic ganglia into their cellular components: neurons, glial cells (which support and nourish the neurons) and fibroblasts (embryonic connective - tissue cells).

These range from visual stimulation experiments that allow us to tap into the specific sets of retinal ganglion cells that are most vulnerable early in the disease, to the evolution of new imaging techniques, largely thanks to Alf Dubra and Vivek Srinivasan's work in those areas, and the ability to image retinal ganglion cells and their component parts like their axons which degenerate very early in glaucoma.