Sentences with phrase «in damage to the optic nerve»

Regular intakes of selenium combined with zinc could help with protecting against glaucoma, which can ultimately result in damage to the optic nerve and blindness.

Prolonged use may result in damage to the optic nerve, glaucoma defects in visual acuity and field of vision, as well as formation of posterior subcapsular cataract.

Glaucoma is a common condition in which the fluid pressure inside your pet's eye increases, resulting in damage to the optic nerve, followed by loss of vision and blindness.

Not exact matches

Doctors in those jurisdictions may prescribe cannabis to treat or manage ailments ranging from glaucoma — an eye disease in which the optic nerve is damaged — to menstrual cramps.

In experiments first reported several years ago, Blackshaw's team found a way to disrupt the normal function of the SCN without physically removing it and damaging the optic nerve.

«Our data clearly showed that one of the protein receptors on white blood cells called CXCR3 brings white blood cells to the optic nerve in response to production of its binding partner CXCL10 by damaged nerve tissue,» said Zhang.

When the UNSW approach was used to assess 13 patients with early glaucoma or optic nerve damage, and 42 people without eye disease, greater vision loss was detected in all patients than using the standard test.

A leading cause of blindness in the world especially for the elderly, glaucoma is caused by high intra-ocular pressure in the eye which then leads to damage to the optic nerve.

They found that the mice can develop damage to the optic nerve despite normal pressure in the eye following KPro surgery and identified TNFa and IL - 1 as inflammatory factors involved in this process, with high levels of TNFa mediating the damage to the optic nerve.

«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.

Researchers from Massachusetts Eye and Ear / Harvard Medical School have identified inflammatory factors that cause optic neuropathy in the back of the eye following implantation of a keratoprosthesis (KPro)-- similar to what glaucoma patients experience, without the rise of pressure in the eye — and have shown that blocking one of those factors, tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNFa), successfully halts the development of optic nerve damage in a mouse model.

Ivermectin, the established drug which successfully treats the infection, is known to be effective against minor damage caused to the front of the eye by the worm, but until now scientists had very little clear evidence about the drug's role in preventing more serious effects of infection, in particular damage to the optic nerve.

The subjects also experienced hypoxic effects, as cessations in breathing cause blood oxygen saturation levels to drop, possibly triggering optic nerve damage that can lead to glaucoma.

Glaucoma is thought to be a disease in which the optic nerve sustains damage due to increased eye pressure, resulting in a restricted visual field.

Glaucoma comprises a group of eye diseases that cause pressure to build up in the eye, which damages the optic nerve and ultimately leads to blindness.

The study shows that the optic nerve could be damaged due to hypoxia without a spike in eye pressure, a finding that could help unravel the details of glaucoma sufferers with normal eye pressure levels.

He believes that the process of microglial activation and ensuing neuronal damage is the same in males and females, but that the presence of female sex hormones increases the microglial activation, leading to greater optic nerve damage and vision loss.

In fact, so much of the progress that we're making in laboratories, including mine, is on developing neuroprotective therapies that can protect the retina from degeneration, regenerate optic nerve fibers all the way back to their targets in the brain, and even replace damaged retinal ganglion cells with self - therapies that completely rebuild the optic nervIn fact, so much of the progress that we're making in laboratories, including mine, is on developing neuroprotective therapies that can protect the retina from degeneration, regenerate optic nerve fibers all the way back to their targets in the brain, and even replace damaged retinal ganglion cells with self - therapies that completely rebuild the optic nervin laboratories, including mine, is on developing neuroprotective therapies that can protect the retina from degeneration, regenerate optic nerve fibers all the way back to their targets in the brain, and even replace damaged retinal ganglion cells with self - therapies that completely rebuild the optic nervin the brain, and even replace damaged retinal ganglion cells with self - therapies that completely rebuild the optic nerve.

We have preliminary evidence that this is also true in the retina after damage to the optic nerve.

Recent studies showed that optic nerve damage in glaucoma triggers the production of autoantibodies, which could be used as biomarkers to glaucoma early detection.

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.

That connection may benefit those who have lost vision because of damage in the structures between the eye and the brain — the loss of an eye through trauma, for instance, or damage to the optic nerve.

Vision loss from glaucoma occurs when axons in the optic nerve become damaged and can no longer carry visual information to the brain.

Once damaged, the optic nerve does not regrow back to the brain, resulting in permanent blindness.

Glaucoma is a group of diseases which can result in damage of the optic nerve and may lead to loss of vision and blindness.

One study conducted in 2014 concluded that smokers with Graves» disease were more likely to experience rapid eye deterioration, including the development of double vision, the constriction of eye movement, and irreversible optic nerve damage.

Since the optic nerve becomes more fragile as it becomes more damaged, it is much harder to preserve remaining vision in someone with advanced glaucoma vs early glaucoma.

Glaucoma, which refers to various eye conditions that damage the optic nerve, is the second most common cause of blindness in the U.S. Vitamin C also helps maintain connective tissue in the eye and may prevent macular degeneration.

Bright light can actually cause an inflammatory response in the eyes which can lead to damage of the optic nerve.

The longer the pressure in the eye is elevated, the more damage occurs to the structures in the eye responsible for vision (especially the retina and optic nerve), eventually resulting in permanent blindness.

Treatment is aimed at maintaining the pressure in a comfortable range and limiting damage to the retina and optic nerve.

Because the pressure is elevated in the eye, it can cause damage to the retina and optic nerve, ultimately resulting in blindness.