Publications by authors named "Joel Mendes"

Article Synopsis
  • Diabetic retinopathy (DR) can cause vision loss and shows early signs of retinal damage, but effects on neural cells before DR diagnosis remain unclear.
  • Researchers studied postmortem eye tissues from diabetes patients without DR symptoms to analyze capillary loss and potential neural effects.
  • They found significant capillary dropout in the deeper vascular plexus of many donor eyes, yet no localized neural loss, suggesting early damage markers in diabetes that occur independently of visible microvascular damage.
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