Reflections on the Utility of the Retina as a Biomarker for Alzheimer's Disease: A Literature Review. [PDF]
, 2019 As a part of the central nervous system, the retina may reflect both physiologic processes and abnormalities related to diseases of the brain. Indeed, a concerted effort has been put forth to understand how Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathology may manifest
Honma, Patrick +2 more
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Progressive ataxia with oculo-palatal tremor and optic atrophy [PDF]
, 2013 The final publication is available at Springer via doi: 10.1007/s00415-013-7136-
A. M. Bronstein +17 more
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Melanopsin-expressing retinal ganglion cells are resistant to cell injury, but not always [PDF]
, 2017 Melanopsin retinal ganglion cells (mRGCs) are intrinsically photosensitive RGCs deputed to non-image forming functions of the eye such as synchronization of circadian rhythms to light-dark cycle.
Carelli, Valerio +7 more
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Automated Fovea Detection Based on Unsupervised Retinal Vessel Segmentation Method [PDF]
, 2017 The Computer Assisted Diagnosis systems could save workloads and give objective diagnostic to ophthalmologists. At first level of automated screening of systems feature extraction is the fundamental step. One of these retinal features is the fovea.
Kalantari, Faraz +3 more
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Clinical Applications of Optical Coherence Tomography in Ophthalmology [PDF]
مجله دانشگاه علوم پزشکی گیلان, 2023 I read the study conducted by Alizade et al. [1] which was interesting. I need to indicate some points about the use of Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) in ophthalmology and optic nerve diseases. As Alizadeh et al.
Masoud Aghsaei Fard
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Optic nerve head segmentation [PDF]
, 2004 Reliable and efficient optic disk localization and segmentation are important tasks in automated retinal screening. General-purpose edge detection algorithms often fail to segment the optic disk due to fuzzy boundaries, inconsistent image contrast or ...
Basu, A. +6 more
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Optic neuritis updates (ORP-57) [PDF]
Neurology Letters, 2023 The optic nerve is a relatively small structure, with a total length of 50 mm, but there are numerous causes of optic nerve disorders, including: inflammation, tumours, vascular disorders, metabolic diseases, infections, drugs, systemic diseases, genetic
Nahid Beladi Moghadam
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Optic Neuritis or Inflammatory Optic Neuropathy: a review
Journal of Ophthalmology, 2022 According to the literature, there are two equivalent terms "optic neuritis" and "inflammatory optic neuropathy". Classification, pathogenesis and clinical manifestations are ambiguous.
N. M. Moyseyenko
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TGF-beta(2)- and H2O2-Induced Biological Changes in Optic Nerve Head Astrocytes Are Reduced by the Antioxidant Alpha-Lipoic Acid [PDF]
, 2012 Background/Aims: The goal of the present study was to determine whether transforming growth factor-beta(2) (TGF-beta(2))- and oxidative stress-induced cellular changes in cultured human optic nerve head (ONH) astrocytes could be reduced by pretreatment ...
Abdul HM +60 more
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Toxic damage of the optic nerve by smoking a tobacco mixture using a hookah
Российский офтальмологический журнал, 2022 Recent years have seen an increase in tobacco mixture smokers using hookahs. Dangerous substances released during smoking cause substantial harm to the entire body, and bring about visual impairment with toxic optical neuropathy. Eye structures which are
E. E. Ioyleva +2 more
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