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...)
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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…
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…
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…
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…
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...)
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 …
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...)
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...)
Promoting optic nerve regeneration
Publication date: November 2012Source:Progress in Retinal and Eye Research, Volume 31, Issue 6 Author(s): Dietmar Fischer , Marco Leibinger Vision is the most important sense for humans and it is irreversibly impaired by axonal damag…
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Publication date: September 2012Source:Progress in Retinal and Eye Research, Volume 31, Issue 5
A proteomics view of the molecular mechanisms and biomarkers of glaucomatous neurodegeneration
Publication date: Available online 5 February 2013
Source:Progress in Retinal and Eye Research
Author(s): Gülgün Tezel
Despite improving understanding of glaucoma, key molecular players of neurodegeneration that can be targeted for treatment of glaucoma, or molecular biomarkers that can be useful for clinical testing, remain unclear. Proteomics technology offers (Read more...)
Cellular and physiological mechanisms underlying blood flow regulation in the retina and choroid in health and disease
Publication date: September 2012Source:Progress in Retinal and Eye Research, Volume 31, Issue 5 Author(s): Joanna Kur , Eric A. Newman , Tailoi Chan-Ling We review the cellular and physiological mechanisms responsible for the regula…
Corneal endothelial regeneration and tissue engineering
Publication date: Available online 23 January 2013
Source:Progress in Retinal and Eye Research
Author(s): Tatsuya Mimura , Satoru Yamagami , Shiro Amano
Human corneal endothelial cells (HCECs) have a limited proliferative capacity. Descemet stripping with automated endothelial keratoplasty (DSAEK) has become the preferred method for the treatment of corneal (Read more...)
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Publication date: May 2013Source:Progress in Retinal and Eye Research, Volume 34
CelI-based therapies for ocular inflammation
Publication date: Available online 29 March 2013Source:Progress in Retinal and Eye Research Author(s): John V. Forrester , Raymond Steptoe , Izabela P. Klaska , Cristina Martin-Granados , Harminder S. Dua , Mariapia Degli-Esposti…
Optic neuritis in neuromyelitis optica
Publication date: Available online 30 March 2013
Source:Progress in Retinal and Eye Research
Author(s): Marc H. Levin , Jeffrey L. Bennett , A.S. Verkman
Neuromyelitis optica (NMO) is an autoimmune demyelinating disease associated with recurrent episodes of optic neuritis and transverse myelitis, often resulting in permanent blindness and/or paralysis. (Read more...)
Protein sorting, targeting and trafficking in photoreceptor cells
Publication date: Available online 3 April 2013Source:Progress in Retinal and Eye Research Author(s): Jillian N. Pearring , Raquel Y. Salinas , Sheila A. Baker , Vadim Y. Arshavsky Vision is the most fundamental of our senses initi…
Nanomedicines for Back of the Eye Drug Delivery, Gene Delivery, and Imaging
Publication date: Available online 16 April 2013Source:Progress in Retinal and Eye Research Author(s): Uday B. Kompella , Aniruddha C. Amrite , Rashmi Pacha Ravi , Shelley A. Durazo Treatment and management of diseases of the poste…
Does autoimmunity play a part in the pathogenesis of glaucoma?
Available online 27 March 2013 Publication year: 2013Source:Progress in Retinal and Eye Research Glaucoma is a chronic neurodegenerative disease and one of the leading causes of blindness. Several risk factors have been described, e.g. an …