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Retina
12
May

Optically Improved Mitochondrial Function Redeems Aged Human Visual Decline

May 12, 2021
Harpreet Shinhmar, MSc, Manjot Grewal, BSc, Sobha Sivaprasad, MBBS, PhD, Chris Hogg, Victor Chong, MBBS, PhD, Magella Neveu, PhD, Glen Jeffery, DPhil, Optically Improved Mitochondrial Function Redeems Aged Human Visual Decline, The Journals of Gerontology: Series A, Volume 75, Issue 9, September 2020, Pages e49–e52, https://doi.org/10.1093/gerona/glaa155 Abstract The age spectrum of human populations is shifting toward the...
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17
Apr

Light Environment Influences Developmental Programming of the Metabolic and Visual Systems in Mice

April 17, 2021
Clarkson-Townsend DA, Bales KL, Marsit CJ, Pardue MT. Light Environment Influences Developmental Programming of the Metabolic and Visual Systems in Mice. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2021 Apr 1;62(4):22. doi: 10.1167/iovs.62.4.22. PMID: 33861321. Abstract Purpose: Light is a salient cue that can influence neurodevelopment and the immune system. Light exposure out of sync with the endogenous clock...
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27
Nov

Babies in the womb may see more than we thought

November 27, 2019
By Robert Sanders, Media relations| NOVEMBER 25, 2019 See the image in the article: An intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cell (ipRGC) as it would appear if you looked at a mouse’s retina through the pupil. The white arrows point to the many different types of cells it networks with: other subtypes of ipRGC cell (red, blue and...
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