Sentences with phrase «whether optic nerve»

«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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(CNN)- Christopher Lukasik was building shelves when a metal rod hit his eye, tearing about a third of his optic nerve fibers and leaving everybody from his doctors to his family wondering whether he would ever see again.

Of course, visual field testing, looking at the optic nerve, optic nerve atrophy, nerve fiber layer thinning, using optical coherence tomography, but the real question is can we back that up significantly and be able to tell whether the patient sitting right there in the chair is in trouble?

First based on our completed genetic study we will test if pharmacological inhibition of an identified protein via direct eye injection can promote long distance optic nerve regeneration or whether, based on strong preliminary data, manipulation of another novel gene can induce such regeneration.

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.

We have some biomarkers for glaucoma that tell us whether patients have the disease, like visual field tests or imaging, just letting your doctor look at the optic nerve in the back of the eye is a biomarker for whether you have glaucoma and, at least at a gross level, whether it's getting worse.

In this study, we will examine whether glial cells and certain proteins secreted from these cells influence axon regeneration and guidance in the optic nerve in adult mice.

Your veterinarian can also use an opthalomoscope to determine whether there are any changes to the retina and optic nerve and possibly find the cause of the drainage problem.