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" Retinal degenerations "
edited by Joyce Tombran-Tink and Colin J. Barnstable.
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668917
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Retinal degenerations : biology, diagnostics, and therapeutics /\ edited by Joyce Tombran-Tink and Colin J. Barnstable.
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Totowa, N.J. :: Humana Press,, c2007.
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Ophthalmology research
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xvii, 466 p. :: ill. ;; 27 cm. ++ 1 CD (4 3/4 in.).
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1588296202 (alk. paper)
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: 9781588296207 (alk. paper)
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: 159745186X (eISBN)
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: 9781597451864 (eISBN)
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Coping with retinal degeneration : a patient's view / Gordon Cousins and James Cape -- Epidemiology of age-related macular degeneration early in the 21st century / Jie Jin Wang, Paul Mitchell, and Ronald Klein -- Leber congenital amaurosis : a hereditary childhood form of blindness and a model to elucidate retinal physiology and development / Robert K. Koenekoop -- Macular degeneration : aging changes and novel therapies / Peter E. Liggett and Alejandro J. Lavaque -- Stargardt disease : from gene discovery to therapy / Rando Allikmets -- X-linked juvenile retinoschisis / Bernhard H. F. Weber and Ulrich Kellner -- Retinal degeneration in Usher syndrome / David S. Williams -- Mouse models of retinitis pigmentosa / Bo Chang ... [et al.] -- The impact of diabetes on neuronal, glial, and vascular cells of the retina : implications for the pathogenesis of diabetic retinopathy / Sylvia B. Smith -- Statins and age-related maculopathy / Gerald McGwin, Jr. and Cynthia Owsley -- The role of drusen in macular degeneration and new methods of quantification / R. Theodore Smith and Umer F. Ahmad -- RPE lipofuscin : formation, properites, and relevance to retinal degeneration / Janet R. Sparrow -- Genetic modifiers that affect phenotypic expression of retinal diseases / Malia M. Edwards ... [et al.] -- X-linked retinal dystrophies and microtubular functions within the retina / Alan F. Wright and Xinhua Shu -- Synaptic remodeling in retinal degeneration / You-Wei Peng and Fulton Wong --
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On the suppression of photoreceptor cell death in retinitis pigmentosa / Fiona Kernan ... [et al.] -- Cell-based therapies to restrict the progress of photoreceptor degeneration / Raymond D. Lund and Shaomei Wang -- Current status of IPE transplantation and its potential as a cell-based therapy for age-related macular degeneration and retinal dystrophies / Makoto Tamai -- Recent results in retinal transplantation give hope for restoring vision / Robert B. Aramant, Norman D. Radtke, and Magdalene J. Seiler -- Stem cells and retinal transplantation / Joanne Yau ... [et al.] -- Application of encapsulated cell technology for retinal degenerative diseases / Weng Tao and Rong Wen -- Effective treatment for the canine RPE65 null mutation, a hereditary retinal dystrophy comparable to human Leber's congenital amaurosis / Kristina Narfström, Gregory E. Tullis, and Mathias Seeliger -- The use of neuroprotective factors in retinal degenerations / Joyce Tombran-Tink and Colin J. Barnstable -- Carbonic anhydrase inhibitors as a possible therapy for RP17, an autosomal dominant retinitis pigmentosa associated with the R14W mutation, apoptosis, and the unfolded protein response / George Rebello, Jacquie Greenberg, and Raj Ramesar -- Macular Degeneration- an addendum / Joyce Tombran-Tink and Colin J. Barnstable.
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Retinal degeneration.
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Tombran-Tink, Joyce.
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Barnstable, Colin J.
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