Sentences with phrase «under the retina of»

The volunteers, ranging in age from 20 to 88, received injections under their retina of a particular type of eye cell, retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) cells, which were derived from hESCs in the lab.

It is a recessively inherited eye disorder that causes abnormal development of the choroid - an important layer of tissue under the retina of the eye.

Not exact matches

In hundreds of experiments he glued a living fly to a special plastic platform under a microscope, sunk a wisp - thin electrode into its honeycombed eye, and recorded how its retina responded to beams of light.

Affecting more than 150 million patients worldwide, AMD is associated with an accumulation of drusen (deposits of lipid and fatty proteins) under the retina, and patients with AMD experience blurred vision or blindness in the center of the visual field.

The first signs of the disease are so - called drusen, which occur under the retina in the form of round, yellow deposits.

For several years now, a retina implant for patients with degenerative eye conditions has been under development at the University of Tübingen's eye clinic.

The researchers injected 50,000 RPE cells suspended in a solution under the retina in one eye of each patient.

Coffey is part of a trial sponsored by the drug company Pfizer awaiting approval in the United Kingdom that will slip a patch of hESC - derived RPE cells under the retina instead of injecting them in a liquid suspension.

In theory, Apte said, when most of the ganglion cells in the retina already have died, fewer cells would be under stress, and that could mean lower levels.

The LALES study, conducted among 4,876 Latinos in Los Angeles with a mean age cohort of 54.8 years old, indicates that Latinos diagnosed with bilateral AMD with large drusen (the lipids or fatty proteins that are yellow deposits under the retina) and depigmentation as well as a more severe AMD had a substantially lower health - related quality of life as compared to those with AMD lesions in only one eye.

In addition, temporal [17] and spatial [16,17] correlations between increased levels of HIF - 1α, the regulatory subunit of HIF - 1, and increased VEGF expression have been shown, indicating that HIF - 1 may control the expression of VEGF in the retina under hypoxic conditions.

The current project will use high - resolution mass spectrometry - based metabolomics approaches to measure temporal and spatial changes of metabolic pathways in the RPE and retina under both physiological and disease conditions, with a focus on mTOR - mediated signal transduction pathways.

Another delivery showing promise is a suspension of cells, which is injected into the eye under the retina.

In dry macular degeneration, the most common form of this eye disease, yellowish cellular deposits called drusen (extracellular waste products from metabolism) form under the retina.

The iPad mini, which launched just under a year ago and costs $ 329 vs $ 499 for the Retina iPad (or $ 399 for the iPad 2), is the main cause of a 17 percent drop in the ASP of the iPad over the past year.

Even with subsidies, Amazon is going to find the 10 ″ tablet market much tougher competition — I don't think Apple will let them get substantially under them in price, and with the mother of all economies of scales (they must be consuming close to half the world's flash memory production), they certainly have room to price the iPad2 lower when the iPad 3 Retina ships.

The New iPad runs iOS 5.1, sporting a 9.7 - inch super-high resolution Retina Display with 2048 x 1536 pixels, powered by a A5X quad - core processor under the hood with quad - core graphics, 5 megapixels rear - facing iSight camera with IR filter, 1080p HD video recording, 16GB / 32GB / 64 GB internal storage, 21 Mbps HSPA + and DC - HSDPA at 42 Mbps, 4G LTE capability, Bluetooth, 802.11 Wi - Fi a / b / g / n, a whole host of the iOS services and all the regular services of an iPad.

As the eyes move, the swirling liquefied vitreous tugs on the retina, causing tears and fluid flow under the retina, separating it from the wall of the eye.

It runs on a 1.3 GHz quad - core Nvidia Tegra 3 processor, has 1 GB of RAM, 8 GB of internal flash storage (16 GB available for an extra $ 50), a 7 - inch 1280 x 800 pixel IPS LCD screen (216 pixels per inch, which is only slightly under the iPad's 264ppi Retina display), and a 1.2 - megapixel front - facing camera.

Considering the inclusion of a Retina display though, Apple will likely not be selling this new MacBook under its Air lineup.

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