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Changes in Retinal Mitochondrial Function in Ocular Diseases and a Potential Treatment Using Near-Infrared Light
DownloadFall 2018
Mitochondria are both prominent target and source of reactive oxygen species (ROS). Their role in a wide range of diseases has been gaining a substantial amount of interest, including a number of high-profile ocular diseases. In the present thesis, we investigated the mitochondrial functional...
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Spring 2016
Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is the leading cause of blindness in working aged adults, however lack of a suitable animal model has limited our understanding of the disease. The Nile grass rat (NR) is a cone-rich crepuscular rodent that spontaneously develops hyperglycemia (HG) when fed standard lab...