Pyoderma gangrenosum (PG), which most frequently affects the lower extremity, is a complicated disease state that results from a combination of inflammation, neutrophilic invasion, and genetic predisposition. There may also be certain comorbidities involved or it may be idiopathic. The many variations of PG mean that it often presents and responds differently to various treatments based on the specific case.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAs the residual vision following a traumatic optic nerve injury can spontaneously recover over time, we explored the spontaneous plasticity of cortical networks during the early post-optic nerve crush (ONC) phase. Using in vivo wide-field calcium imaging on awake Thy1-GCaMP6s mice, we characterized resting state and evoked cortical activity before, during, and 31 days after ONC. The recovery of monocular visual acuity and depth perception was evaluated in parallel.
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