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Investigating Disease Presentation and Mechanism in RP1L1-Associated Photoreceptor Degeneration
DownloadFall 2021
Photoreceptor disease results in irreparable vision loss and blindness, which has a dramatic impact on quality of life. Retinitis pigmentosa 1-like 1 (RP1L1) is a component of the photoreceptor axoneme, the backbone structure of the photoreceptor’s light-sensing outer segment. Pathogenic variants...
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Spring 2011
Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the leading cause of Government-registered blindness in the elderly of the Western world and has two forms: wet and dry. No current AMD therapies are curative, and most are provided after retinal damage from the disease has already occurred (to preserve...