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Diabetes > Retina
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Retina Defined
The center part of the back lining of the eye that senses light. It has many small blood vessels that are sometimes harmed when a person has had diabetes for a long time.
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CENTRAL PA NEWS
Published September 7, 2008, 9:17 pm, The Patriot-News
Colin Barnstable, one of several researchers at Penn State College of Medicine working with stem cells, believes the technology could provide a cure for macular degeneration and several other diseases within five years.
Study outcome won't sway company on eye drug
Published September 7, 2008, 9:01 am, Baltimore Sun
What does a company do when there's anecdotal evidence that two of its drugs are equally effective in treating a leading cause of blindness in the elderly, one costing patients $60 per treatment and the other $2,000?
Neurotech's NT-501 gets fast track designations for retinitis pigmentosa & dry AMD
Published September 5, 2008, 4:39 am, PharmaBiz
Neurotech Pharmaceuticals, Inc, a privately-held biotechnology company focused on the development of sight-saving therapeutics for chronic retinal diseases, announced that the U S Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Fast Track designations for NT-501 for the treatment of visual loss in two indications retinitis pigmentosa (RP) and the dry form of age-related macular degeneration (dry ...
Keeping a Close 'Eye' on Cholesterol
Published September 4, 2008, 12:21 pm, Fox News
We all know high cholesterol is bad for our health, especially our hearts. But, did you know it can also affect our eyesight?
Gene therapy prevents blindness in an animal model of mitochondrial dysfunction
Published September 4, 2008, 9:20 am, EurekAlert!
Scientists have created an animal model suitable for testing and validating gene therapies for treatment of a common mitochondrial dysfunction that causes loss of vision.
Relay for Life raises hope and money to find a cure
Published September 4, 2008, 1:44 am, Worcester Telegram & Gazette
AUBURN - Starting about noon tomorrow, there's going to be a lot of working and walking near the track at the rear of Lemansky Park on Oxford Street North.
Acucela and Otsuka Pharmaceutical Enter Co-Development Agreement for ACU-4429 in Dry Age Related Macular Degeneration
Published September 4, 2008, 12:00 am, Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance
BOTHELL, Wash. & TOKYO----Acucela Inc. and Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. announced today that they have entered into a definitive agreement to co-develop Acucela's lead compound ACU-4429 which is currently in Phase I clinical development for the dry form of age-related macular degeneration in the United States.
Top 10 low-calorie foods
Published September 3, 2008, 11:07 pm, Handbag.com
Need to get your diet back on track? Check out our rundown of delicious low-calorie foods that have a wide range of health benefits.
Word of Mouth
Published September 3, 2008, 2:23 pm, UB Reporter
Steven Fliesler, who joined the Department of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, this fall, says his career in ophthalmic research stems from two passions: a love of exploring the unexplored and a drive to understand—and help cure—serious diseases of the eye.
Are Diabetes And Obesity Linked To Periodontitis?
Published September 3, 2008, 7:10 am, Medical News Today
The University of Illinois at Chicago has received a two-year federal grant to continue a study on how periodontitis, an inflammatory disease of the tissues surrounding teeth, is linked to type 2 diabetes and obesity. Dr. Keiko Watanabe of the UIC College of Dentistry has found that periodontitis accelerates the onset of insulin resistance in rats fed a high-fat diet.
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- Retina-clock relations dictate nocturnal to diurnal behaviors ? PNAS: One hypothesis for the evolutionary expansion of mammals after their emergence from reptiles is that mammals became nocturnal and were thus able to use an unexploited temporal niche (1, 2). To produce an exact 24-h rhythm in behavioral outputs, the circadian clock develops a temporal phase relation with the day/night cycle. In species studied thus far, the electrical and gene expression rhythms in the circadian clock in both diurnal and nocturnal animals have similar phases with respect to the light:dark cycle. This suggests that the phase difference in the activity of nocturnal and diurnal animals is not caused by differences in the circadian clock but rather by how the clock couples to output mechanisms (3). In this issue of PNAS, Doyle et al. (4) present a possible mechanism for how retinal mutations could also lead to a switch between nocturnal and diurnal behavior.
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- TEMPORAL FACTORS IN SUBJECTIVE COLOR,: The use of the Prevost-Fechne r-Benham Effect to obtain colored images on black-and-whit e television receivers is discussed to illustrate one technological application of subjective color.
- The Spiral Aftereffect. III. Some Effects of Perceived Size, Retinal Size, and Retinal Speed on the Duration of Illusory Motion,: Many safety problems encountered in aviation have been attributed to visual illusions. One of the various types of visual illusions, that of apparent motion, includes as an aftereffect the apparent reversed motion of an object after it ceases real movement.
- Webvision: Facts and Figures concerning the human retina: 32 mm from ora to ora along the horizontal meridian (Van Buren, 1963; Kolb, unpublished measurements). Area of the human retina is 1094 square mm (Bernstein, personal communication) calculated from the expectations that the average dimension of the human eye is 22 mm from anterior to posterior poles, and that 72% of the inside of the globe is retina (Michels et al., 1990).
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