Publication date: Available online 28 August 2013 Source:Progress in Retinal and Eye Research Author(s): Yusuke Murakami , Shoji Notomi , Toshio Hisatomi , Toru Nakazawa , Tatsuro Ishibashi , Joan W. Miller , Demetrios G. Vavvas…
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Aging Is Not a Disease: Distinguishing Age-Related Macular Degeneration from Aging
Publication date: Available online 9 August 2013
Source:Progress in Retinal and Eye Research
Author(s): Daniel Ardeljan , Chi-Chao Chan
Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a disease of the outer retina, characterized most significantly by atrophy of photoreceptors and retinal pigment epithelium accompanied with or without choroidal neovascularization. Development of (Read more...)
Regional morphology and pathophysiology of retinal vascular disease
Publication date: Available online 26 July 2013 Source:Progress in Retinal and Eye Research Author(s): Toke Bek Disturbances in the retinal vascular supply are involved in the pathophysiology of the most frequent diseases causing visu…
Retinal ganglion cells: Energetics, compartmentation, axonal transport, cytoskeletons and vulnerability
Publication date: Available online 23 July 2013
Source:Progress in Retinal and Eye Research
Author(s): Dao-Yi Yu , Stephen J. Cringle , Chandrakumar Balaratnasingam , William H. Morgan , Paula K. Yu , Er-Ning Su
Retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) are specialized projection neurons that relay an immense amount of visual (Read more...)
Type I Interferon and Lymphangiogenesis in the HSV-1 Infected Cornea – Are they Beneficial to the Host?
Publication date: Available online 19 July 2013 Source:Progress in Retinal and Eye Research Author(s): Katie Bryant-Hudson , Christopher D. Conrady , Daniel J.J. Carr Herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) is a highly successful pathog…
Arginase in Retinopathy
Publication date: Available online 3 July 2013 Source:Progress in Retinal and Eye Research Author(s): S. Priya Narayanan , Modesto Rojas , Jutamas Suwanpradid , Haroldo A. Toque , R. William Caldwell , Ruth B. Caldwell Ischemic r…
The Relationship between Anisometropia and Amblyopia
Publication date: Available online 15 June 2013 Source:Progress in Retinal and Eye Research Author(s): Brendan T. Barrett , Arthur Bradley , T. Rowan Candy This review aims to disentangle cause and effect in the relationship between…
Rho-associated Kinase Inhibitors: A Novel Glaucoma Therapy
Publication date: Available online 12 June 2013 Source:Progress in Retinal and Eye Research Author(s): Toshihiro Inoue , Hidenobu Tanihara The rho-associated kinase (ROCK) signaling pathway is activated via secreted bioactive molecul…
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Publication date: July 2013Source:Progress in Retinal and Eye Research, Volume 35
Clinical applications of retinal gene therapy
Publication date: January 2013Source:Progress in Retinal and Eye Research, Volume 32 Author(s): Daniel M. Lipinski , Miriam Thake , Robert E. MacLaren Many currently incurable forms of blindness affecting the retina have a genetic e…
The complex interactions of retinal, optical and environmental factors in myopia aetiology
Publication date: November 2012
Source:Progress in Retinal and Eye Research, Volume 31, Issue 6
Author(s): D.I. Flitcroft
Myopia is the commonest ocular abnormality but as a research topic remains at the margins of mainstream ophthalmology. The concept that most myopes fall into the category of ‘physiological myopia’ undoubtedly contributes (Read more...)
Novel roles for α-crystallins in retinal function and disease
Publication date: November 2012
Source:Progress in Retinal and Eye Research, Volume 31, Issue 6
Author(s): Ram Kannan , Parameswaran G. Sreekumar , David R. Hinton
α-Crystallins are key members of the superfamily of small heat shock proteins that have been studied in detail in the ocular lens. Recently, novel (Read more...)
Tear analysis in ocular surface diseases
Publication date: November 2012Source:Progress in Retinal and Eye Research, Volume 31, Issue 6 Author(s): Lei Zhou , Roger W. Beuerman The thin layer of tears covering the ocular surface are a complex body fluid containing thousands …
A contemporary concept of the blood–aqueous barrier
Publication date: January 2013
Source:Progress in Retinal and Eye Research, Volume 32
Author(s): Thomas F. Freddo
This review traces the evolution of the concept of the blood–aqueous barrier (BAB) during the past 20 years. The Classical model simply stipulated that the tight junctions of the iris vasculature and ciliary epithelium (Read more...)
Herpes keratitis
Publication date: January 2013Source:Progress in Retinal and Eye Research, Volume 32 Author(s): A.M. Rowe , A.J. St. Leger , S. Jeon , D.K. Dhaliwal , J.E. Knickelbein , R.L. Hendricks Herpes simplex virus-1 (HSV-1) infects the m…
New insights into retinoid metabolism and cycling within the retina
Publication date: January 2013Source:Progress in Retinal and Eye Research, Volume 32 Author(s): Peter H. Tang , Masahiro Kono , Yiannis Koutalos , Zsolt Ablonczy , Rosalie K. Crouch The retinoid cycle is a series of biochemical re…
Role of the retinal vascular endothelial cell in ocular disease
Publication date: January 2013Source:Progress in Retinal and Eye Research, Volume 32 Author(s): Arpita S. Bharadwaj , Binoy Appukuttan , Phillip A. Wilmarth , Yuzhen Pan , Andrew J. Stempel , Timothy J. Chipps , Eric E. Benedett…
Novel anti(lymph)angiogenic treatment strategies for corneal and ocular surface diseases
Publication date: May 2013Source:Progress in Retinal and Eye Research, Volume 34 Author(s): Felix Bock , Kazuichi Maruyama , Birgit Regenfuss , Deniz Hos , Philipp Steven , Ludwig M. Heindl , Claus Cursiefen The cornea is one of…
Optical plasticity in fish lenses
Publication date: May 2013
Source:Progress in Retinal and Eye Research, Volume 34
Author(s): Ronald H.H. Kröger
In a typical fish eye, the crystalline lens is the only refractive element. It is spherical in shape and has high refractive power. Most fish species have elaborate color vision and spectral sensitivity (Read more...)
Macular telangiectasia type 2
Publication date: May 2013
Source:Progress in Retinal and Eye Research, Volume 34
Author(s): Peter Charbel Issa , Mark C. Gillies , Emily Y. Chew , Alan C. Bird , Tjebo F.C. Heeren , Tunde Peto , Frank G. Holz , Hendrik P.N. Scholl
Macular telangiectasia type 2 is a (Read more...)