Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a major cause of blindness, especially in older adults. A key feature of early AMD ...

Retinal vascular change or degeneration already has been associated with Alzheimer and Parkinson disease, and the findings ...

The drug has been reported previously to cause neuropathy and hypersensitivity reactions in breast cancer patients.

Monitor: Pigmented lattice degeneration without ... This condition, a separation of the inner and outer layers of the retina, is less common than lattice degeneration. It also does not typically ...

“We found CRB1 was expressed both in the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) and in the gut,” the paper said, referring to the pigmented layer of the retina. Inherited retinal degenerations have ...

Outer retinal layers undergo significant thinning in patients with molecularly ... and 30.8% had mean thicknesses of 0 for the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE). SD-OCT seems to be a suitable ...

A detached retina is when the retina peels away or detaches from its support tissue at the back of the eye. Symptoms include flashes of light and other vision changes. A detached retina is a ...

AMD is caused by dysfunction in the retinal pigmented epithelium (RPE), a layer of tissue sandwiched between the photoreceptors that receive light, and the choriocapillaris, which nourishes the ...

Both the manual and the densitometric method offer advantages since positions and thicknesses of individual retinal layers can be determined and compared in vertical sections perpendicular to the ...

The retina's light-sensing photoreceptors sit above the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE), a layer of support cells. The RPE nourishes photoreceptors and recycles pieces of the photoreceptor cells ...

The scientists from the National Eye Institute (NEI) discovered five subpopulations of retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) - a layer of tissue that nourishes and supports the retina's light-sensing ...

Regional phenotypic and functional differences in the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE ... The movie cuts through the photoreceptor and RPE layers. A dome shaped sub-RPE deposit pushes RPE cells upward ...