Sentences with word «retinal»

Also known as progressive retinal degeneration for that reason, the disease is inherited and has no known cure or treatment.

Various forms of the disease stem from 24 currently recognized genetic mutations, each of which affects the function of retinal cells.

The back of the eye is lined with a layer of retinal cells which are stimulated by light passing into the eye through the lens.

While there, I published one of the first papers demonstrating rescue of retinal degeneration by gene therapy.

The treatment grew out of the understanding that people with the disorder become blind because of genetic mutations in retinal cells.

A few dogs with geographic retinal dysplasia were found in the population tested.

Other surprising findings revealed unique patterns for retinal cell death in young spiders.

«There are some patients with retinal disease who don't show gene mutations that we know are responsible for disease,» he said.

These supplements are not suitable for adequate support of retinal function in dogs.

The litters were also exposed to high levels of oxygen, which causes a loss of blood vessels in retinal tissue.

There are many different types of inherited retinal degenerative diseases in purebred dogs, and discussing these are beyond the scope of this article.

Some conditions (such as retinal dysplasia) can be detected in puppies and if the condition is not present at this exam, it will not occur later in life.

If so, it might be possible, he said, to develop treatments that can repair retinal damage, which is responsible for several common causes of vision loss.

His research focuses on understanding the role of inflammation in retinal degenerative diseases and seeks to target inflammatory pathways in these diseases using gene therapy.

The lesions may disappear, or may result in minor retinal folding.

Others want to deliver working copies of broken genes into retinal cells, restoring their function.

The success with monkeys also gives hope for other retinal disorders.

Vision in low light is dependent on retinal cells called rods.

But not only are they real, they keep improving: A new technique has the potential to help patients with retinal implants see better, indoors and out.

No two sets of finger prints, voice prints or retinal scans are the same, so why should the essential vibration of our lives be any different.

Wear them even when 99 percent of the sun is covered because the remaining part is still intense enough to cause retinal burns.

Between 8 and 12 weeks of age, when retinal development is normally completed in dogs, signs of vision problems are noticeable.

Blood flow may also be increased to the eye and it's surrounding structures as well as stimulation of the generation of compounds which support retinal nerve growth.

Humans appear to have true, self - renewing retinal stem cells.

It plays a role in retinal health so the right food can save your dog from suffering certain diseases.

Recently, the lab discovered the genetic cause for drug - induced retinal toxicity and blindness in cats associated with specific antibiotics.

This level of structural sensitivity is not possible using any existing retinal imaging methods.

What do you think that does with your central retinal pathway?

These fatty acids are critical to helping babies develop retinal (eye) and neural (brain) tissues.

If you need to recognise a particular type of retinal problem in the patterns of the blood vessels, it's the perfect way to learn.

Typical retinal changes are visible in eye examination usually around 3 years of age.

It is also called optical art or retinal art.

I've since read on some sites that cod liver oil contains retinal which could be harmful to the baby.

Several groups have used retinal cells derived from human embryonic stem cells to treat different forms of blindness.

There is no way to reverse or to treat retinal degeneration, or the total loss of vision that inevitably accompanies it.

This is the most widespread hereditary retinal disease leading to blindness in dogs.

The interaction of differing colours in the painting - simultaneous contrast, successive contrast, and reverse contrast - may cause additional retinal effects.

The researchers saw a 30 percent increase in retinal regeneration at day 4 of recovery compared with controls.

Rail: So you don't mind the kind of optical pleasure or retinal experience that your painting generates?

There are experimental attempts to develop electronic implants and to use stem cells to grow new retinal tissues to restore sight, but there is currently no commercial treatment available.

For protein measurements, retinal samples were isolated and immediately frozen at − 80 °C.

Here the so - called bipolar cells play a central role, as the first retinal layer to process the output of the light - sensitive cells in the eye.

Still others may have retinal eye diseases that cause decreased vision at lower light levels.

Maybe they weren't better, but at least they weren't retinal.

My lab is currently moving our interest in retinal circuit formation in a new and related direction: how these circuits need to be protected over time to ensure proper visual function.

This success, combined with the customary slow onset of many retinal disorders, suggests that new therapeutic interventions that could dramatically improve the quality of life for thousands of patients.

The prototype system has been kept tightly under wraps, but it's thought to be a kind of retinal projection that evolved out of surgical research over the past several years.

The likelihood of the same retinal cell undergoing two independent mutations in the same gene would be extremely rare.