Sentences with phrase «optic nerve hypoplasia»

While the researchers caution that mice and humans are different, the mouse model indicates that optic nerve hypoplasia is related to the CASK molecule.

Scientists at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute (VTCRI) have revealed the pathology of cells and structures stricken by optic nerve hypoplasia, a leading cause of childhood blindness in developed nations.

«Although clinicians have known about optic nerve hypoplasia for some time, the nature of the pathology was not clearly understood,» said Konark Mukherjee, an assistant professor at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute.

«There has always been this question of whether optic nerve hypoplasia occurred during development or if the visual system degenerated after the normal course of development.

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Optic nerve hypoplasia is closely related to optic nerve atrophy, in which the optic nerve develops normally initially, but later degenerates as its cells die off.

Optic nerve hypoplasia: a condition where the optic nerve going from the eye to the brain is too small.

Collie Eye Anomaly (CEA)-- a complex of congenital defects including choroidal hypoplasia, also called chorioretinal dysplasia — a thinning of the vascular tissue within the eye), optic disc coloboma / staphloma — incomplete development of the optic nerve where it enters the eye, and retinal dysplasia or detachment — sections of retina, the vision reception tissue, that are not properly attached to the wall of the eye.

Examples of the latter might include: choroidal hypoplasia in breeds not previously identified as having Collie Eye Anomaly, optic nerve colobomas, microphthalmia, multi-focal retinopathy in breeds not yet recognized as having CMR mutations, etc..