Sentences with phrase «on optic nerve»

Harald Junge, Ph.D., CU - Boulder: Determine the effects of trisomy 21 on optic nerve development and function

The disease puts pressure on the optic nerve through fluid build - up, and can irreversibly damage vision if not properly treated.

Then, the next spring, there was a sudden increase in pressure on my optic nerve and my vision suddenly dropped off.

I also had two surgeries to relieve the pressure on the optic nerve.

A day later, I had an MRI scan of my brain, and two days after that I was informed that I had several lesions on an optic nerve behind my right eye which required IV steroid treatment.

A trip to the doctor reveals that the inoperable pituitary tumor that had been pressing on his optic nerves since he was a teenager has miraculously shrunk.

In 20th Century Women, a far easier session on the optic nerves, Fanning plays a lustrous, restless, teenage sunflower in Santa Barbara who moves like a pop tune through air, teaches a young lad the proper dude way to smoke and swagger, and mimics the whimpering moans of male lust with fond disdain.

Not exact matches

The optic nerve is working, and your baby will often turn her / his head to look in the direction of a light shining on your belly.

The first symptom of a similar problem appeared on my right optic nerve when I was 16 years old.

It has fallen on the blind spot of your left eye, a small patch of retina called the optic disk that is devoid of receptors (an imperfection caused by the optic nerve piercing the retina as it exits the eyeball).

«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.

The oldest known drawing of the nervous system shows a large nose at the bottom, eyes on either side, and a hollow optic nerve that flows out of each one towards the back of the brain.

In 2010, they decided to collaborate to learn about zinc's impact on retinal ganglion cells, which receive visual signals and form the optic nerve that delivers information to the brain.3

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 nerve.

(E) Retinal ganglion cell axons exit the eye as the optic nerve (white arrow), pass under the brain and out of view then reappear on the contralateral side (arrowhead).

First based on our completed genetic study we will test if pharmacological inhibition of an identified protein via direct eye injection can promote long distance optic nerve regeneration or whether, based on strong preliminary data, manipulation of another novel gene can induce such regeneration.

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.

I have been working in the field of glaucoma research, on pathophysiology and diagnostics, for the past 18 years, and have become increasingly interested in the use of advanced imaging techniques for characterization of glaucomatous changes within the retina and optic nerve head.

The pattern of RGC loss in patients as well as information obtained from laboratory research all point to the fact that an important site of pathology occurs at the optic nerve head, a region where the axonal cell processes of RGCs exit the eye on their way to the visual centers of the brain.

We're focused on glaucoma and it has to do with a set of very surprising findings in a region that we know is critical for axon loss in glaucoma, which is the optic nerve head.

Dr. Otteson studied how retinal ganglion cells turn on and off the genes that regulate the normal patterns of connections during optic nerve development.

Identifying factors that regulate directional growth of regenerating RGC axons to their targets will provide invaluable information on developing future therapies to repair degenerated optic nerve following glaucoma.

Towards this goal, we first discovered that optic nerves regenerate physically on the surface of astrocytes which are the support cells in the optic nerve.

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.

Another example, this is something that's going on in my laboratory, is that we're starting to look at protein and fat deposits in the retina and the optic nerve that we hopefully can measure in blood serum that tell us that the disease is progressing early on.

The Nobel Prize - winning physiologist Haldan Hartline discovered that the optic nerve of Limulus polyphemus could be frayed into thin bundles, and then further split apart until he had a single fiber on which to run his experiments.

Glaucoma is actually a series of diseases that damage the optic nerve (the nerve that connects the retina of the eye to the brain), often when too much pressure is put on the eye due to fluid buildup.

Sneezing generates a lot of pressure in your head, which can in turn put pressure on the retina — the light - sensitive layer of tissue inside your eyeball — or optic nerve.

While the mechanism of glaucoma vision loss isn't completely understood, the majority of research has cantered on eye pressure increase slowly but surely injuring the optic nerve.

Nutritional optic neuropathy, a damage of the optic nerve with reduction of color vision and visual field defects may be caused by lack of certain vitamins or other nutrients in a chronic alcoholic on a poor diet [19].

If you find that your cat is circling for no apparent reason — meaning she's not trying to make a nest on your bed — this may be a sign that she could be suffering from a tumor that's affecting her optic nerves and, therefore, her vision.

As of right now, my dog has no aura before the event and acts fine both during and after the episode, so I can only assume that it's something going on specifically in the occipital lobe of the brain or the optic nerve.