Sentences with phrase «inherited eye disorders»

The dog has already played an important role in emerging therapies for inherited blindness in humans and similarities in disease phenotype and eye structure and function between dog and man, together with the increasingly sophisticated genetic tools that are available for the dog, mean that the dog is likely to play an ever increasing role in both our understanding of the normal functioning of the eye and in our ability to treat inherited eye disorders.

Researchers have discovered that genetic mutations underlying two inherited eye disorders arise in different components of a single intracellular signaling pathway that is responsible for development...

It is a recessively inherited eye disorder that causes abnormal development of the choroid - an important layer of tissue under the retina of the eye.

There are several sight - robbing inherited eye disorders in purebred and mixed breed dogs and cats.

The Ophthalmology department offers consultation and treatment in eye related diseases in all species of animals, as well as the screening of purebred dogs for the presence of inherited eye disorders (CERF examinations).

Obesity, spinal problems, degenerative myelopathy (neurological disease known to cause lameness) and some inherited eye disorders such as PRA (Progressive Retinal Atrophy).

Through our clinic, I work with adults with all forms of genetic disease including connective tissue disease, cardiomyopathy, inherited arrhythmias, hereditary cancer syndromes, inherited eye disorders, hearing loss, intellectual disability, and dysmorphology disorders.