Sentences with phrase «optic nerve aging»

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Roughly 2 % of people over age 35 have chronic glaucoma, in which fluid builds up inside the eyeball, leading to increased pressure and eventual death of cells in the optic nerve.

Studying mouse models of glaucoma, Ban, Apte and their colleagues identified a molecule in the eye called growth differentiation factor 15 (GDF15), noting that the levels of the molecule increased as the animals aged and developed optic nerve damage.

Clinical, histopathological, and molecular variables included patient age, gender, extraocular extension, tumor location (ciliary body or not), optic nerve invasion, angiotropism, neurotropism, melanoma cell type, BAP1 mutation, and monosomy 3.

Brain, eyes, and optic nerves were taken from transgenic and wild - type mice of 3 to 12 months of age and processed for immunohistochemistry, qPCR, or western immunoblotting.

(2008) Age - dependent changes in morphologically identified glial cell populations in the optic nerve of the DBA / 2J mouse model of pigmentary glaucoma (Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 49: ARVO E-Abstract 3693).

Glaucoma — pressure inside the eye which becomes so high that it damages the optic nerve — the most common cause of blindness in middle age dogs