The Organization of the Retina and Visual System
These retinal images are from an 84 year old white male who presented to the Moran Eye Center in 2008. He was diagnosed and followed for dry age-related macular degeneration (AMD) with serial autofluorescent photographs showing progression of geographic atrophy of the RPE from 2008 to 2014.
These images were prepared by James Gilman of the Moran Eye Center.
There is an upcoming Vision Interest Group featuring Stephan Baehr from the DeAngelis Lab and Jacki Roberts from the Fu Lab. Will be held on March 19th at noon in the west John A. Moran Eye Center Auditorium.
This abstract was presented today at the Association for Research in Vision and Opthalmology (ARVO) meetings in Seattle, Washington by Alexandra D. Butler, William D. Ferrell, Alex Woodell, Carl Atkinson, Baerbel Rohrer, Robert E. Marc and Bryan W. Jones. Continue reading “Retinal Metabolic Response to Cigarette Smoke”
The Moran Eye Center‘s Dr. Gregory Hageman delivered a Congressional Briefing on September 20th along with the Alliance for Eye and Vision Research (AEVR) and partners AMD Alliance International, Alliance for Aging Research, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO), European Vision Institute and Lighthouse International. Dr. Hageman spoke as part of a Congressional briefing as part of International Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD) Awareness Week 2012.
Dr. Gregory Hageman, Executive Director of the Center for Translational Medicine (CTM) at the John A. Moran Eye Center at the University of Utah related in his address that AMD consists of multiple biological diseases. Dr. Hageman continued by expressing that a convergence of clinical, biological and genetic data has led to a stronger understanding of the disease and new hope for the development of diagnostics and therapeutic interventions currently underway.
More details of the briefing are available on the NAEVR website here.
This study by Paul S. Bernstein, Faisal Ahmed, Aihua Liu, Susan Allman, Xiaoming Sheng, Mohsen Sharifzadeh, Igor Ermakov, and Werner Gellermann in IOVS examined the macular pigment in AREDS2 patients. AREDS2 is a randomized, placebo-controlled study designed to determine whether supplementation with 10 mg of lutein and 2 mg of zeaxanthin per day can slow the rate of progression of age-related macular degeneration (AMD). Continue reading “Macular pigment imaging in AREDS2 participants: An ancillary study of AREDS2 subjects enrolled at the Moran Eye Center”
This abstract was presented today at the Association for Research in Vision and Opthalmology (ARVO) meetings in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida by Alexandra D. Butler, William D. Ferrell, Alex Woodell, Carl Atkinson, Bärbel Rohrer, Robert E. Marc and Bryan W. Jones. Continue reading “Retinal Metabolic Response to Cigarette Smoke”
This poster was presented today at the Association for Research in Vision and Opthalmology (ARVO) meetings in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida by W. Drew Ferrell, Lloyd Williams, Carl B. Watt, James R. Anderson, Robert E. Marc and Bryan William Jones. Full size (almost) poster can be seen here.
Yanhua Lin, Bryan W. Jones, Aihua Liu, Félix R. Vazquéz-Chona, J. Scott Lauritzen, W. Drew Ferrell and Robert E. Marc published a paper on rapid changes in glutamate receptor 2 trafficking during retinal degeneration.
Continue reading “Rapid Glutamate Receptor 2 Trafficking During Retinal Degeneration”
We just received program notice of the XVth International Symposium on Retinal Degeneration that will be held, July 16-20, 2012 Bad Gögging, Bavaria, Germany.
Continue reading “RD 2012: XVth International Symposium on Retinal Degeneration Announcement”
Efforts to explore chromosome 10q26, a major candidate region associated with age-related macular degeneration (AMD) have proven difficult and controversial. This particular region of interest is two neighboring genes, ARMS2 and HTRA1. However, efforts in trying to explore the functional involvement of either HTRA1 or ARMS2 in AMD have proven to be difficult and have often yielded conflicting results.