Sentences with phrase «optic nerve damage from»

Subject also suffers apparent optic nerve damage from SXSW - hottie - ogling (one can't look too long at the sun without consequences, after all).

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It occurs when fluid pressure inside the eyes rises, irreversibly damaging the optic nerve that carries visual information from the retina to the brain.

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.

Importantly, the research team also looked at optic nerves of the central nervous system, which are damaged in glaucoma, and found similar protective effects from the loss of Phr1.

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.

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.

These key understandings are the first significant steps toward slowing or preventing the cell death process using targeted interventions to protect the optic nerve from glaucoma's damage.

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.

These key understandings are the first significant steps toward targeted interventions to protect the optic nerve from glaucoma's damage.

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