Anti-HIV drugs save vision, improve outlook for AIDS patients
...t of 10 lines on the chart. By one year after CMV retinitis diagnosis, the incidence of vision loss to the lev...d CMV retinitis, 212 patients had longstanding CMV retinitis of an average three years' duration, and 709 patients had no CMV retinitis. Newly diagnosed patient...Abnormal immune response may play major role in glaucoma, study says
...ing eye diseases, such as macular degeneration and retinitis pigmentosa. The research team includes Drs. Simon W. M. John, Richard S. Smith, and Michael Anderson of Jackson Laboratories, and Drs. Jun Song Mo, Bruce R. Ksander, and Meredith Gregory of Schepens Eye Research institute....OXiGENE announces launch of ophthalmic clinical trial at The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
...t of new clinical trials for macular degeneration, retinitis pigmentosa and other retinal degenerative diseases." Each year more than 500,000 new cases of wet AMD are diagnosed worldwide. In the U.S., macular degeneration is the leading cause of severe and irreversible vision loss in people over age 60. Whil...Brain stem cells are not rejected when transplanted
...rate vision for millions with maculardegeneration, retinitis pigmentosa and diabetic retinopathy and braintransplants to restore functioning for patients with disorders such asParkinson's disease. "These findings are very exciting," says Michael Young, PhD, the lead authorof the study and an assistant scientis...Stem cells delivered into back of eye hold promise for people with retinitis pigmentosa
...rative retinal disorders are known collectively as retinitis pigmentosa. According to the National Eye Institute, more than 100,000 Americans suffer from retinitis pigmentosa, which is caused by more than 100 different genetic mutations. "For patients with retin...USC awarded multi-million dollar engineering research center by National Science Foundation
...cells damaged by degenerative eye diseases such as retinitis pigmentosa or macular degeneration. The electrodes in the array are stimulated by an incoming image and they, in turn, stimulate the patient's remaining retinal cells. The information travels via the optic nerve to the vision centers of the brain to...... for the most common inherited cause of blindness, retinitis pigmentosa, is one step closer, according to inves...ately 1.5 million people worldwide are affected by retinitis pigmentosa, which at the moment has no cure. This disease causes vision loss by progressive degenera...JCI Table of Contents, January 15 2004
...seases including homocystinuria, Bartter syndrome, retinitis pigmentosa, and Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome. In the January 15 issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation, D. Grahame Hardie and colleagues from the University of Dundee, Scotland, fill in the missing link and demonstrate that pairs of CBS seq...Biological cause of one form of blindness identified by SLU researchers
...searchers have discovered the cause of one form of retinitis pigmentosa, a type of genetically inherited blindn...ic mutation not previously known to be involved in retinitis pigmentosa. The discovery was unusual because this gene was expressed only in the kidney and in micr...JCI table of contents, 1 July 2004
...and functional impairment of endocytic pathways by retinitis pigmentosa mutant rhodopsin-arrestin complexes AUTHOR CONTACT: Ching-Hwa Sung Weil Medical College of Cornell, New York, New York, USA. Phone: 212-746-2291; Fax: 212-746-6670; Email: chsung@mail.med.cornell.edu View the PDF of this article at: htt...Research to Prevent Blindness awards $4.8 million
... and diabetic retinopathy to macular degeneration, retinitis pigmentosa and eye movement disorders. The organization will award additional grants in December. The latest awards were given to 29 medical institutions, including unrestricted and challenge grants to departments of ophthalmology at 22 medical scho...New clues to hereditary blinding disease found
...rchers have discovered a critical role for zinc in retinitis pigmentosa. The amount of zinc, a trace metal natu... a light receptor protein in the eye, can trigger retinitis pigmentosa (RP), a degenerative disease that leaves many patients legally blind by the age of 40. T......e marrowderived stem cells preserve cone vision in retinitis pigmentosa AUTHOR CONTACT: Lois E.H. Smith Children's Hospital, 300 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA Phone: 617-919-2529; Fax: 617-730-0392; E-mail: lois.smith@childrens.harvard.edu View the PDF of this article at: https://www.the-jci.org/pre...